{"id":201469,"date":"2026-03-22T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:07:07","slug":"south-florida-mothers-helping-families-with-newborns-diagnosed-with-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201469\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida mothers helping families with newborns diagnosed with Down syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM<\/p>\n<p>2 South Florida moms helping others with newborns diagnosed with Down syndrome <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saturday was World Down Syndrome Day and two South Florida moms are on a mission to erase the stigma around the genetic condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When West Palm Beach and Pembroke Pines moms Emily Hitchcock and Leah Rodriguez learned their babies had down syndrome, they each received a Jack\u2019s Basket\u2019 filled with resources, gifts, and a simple message: your child is worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, those moms are paying it forward and delivering those same baskets to families impacted by down syndrome across South Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSomeone who didn\u2019t know my baby knew that she was valuable and worthy of celebration, and I wanted to be able to do that for all my families,\u201d said Hitchcock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The organization Jack\u2019s Basket has delivered more than 13,000 baskets nationwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To request one, or learn more about their mission, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksbasket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jacksbasket.org\/\">JacksBasket.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM 2 South Florida moms helping others with newborns diagnosed with Down syndrome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-201469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}