GEORGE, IA (KELO) -- According to the CDC, about 5,700 babies are born with Down syndrome in the United States each year.

For some parents, learning their baby has Down syndrome might lead to mixed emotions, but one woman living in rural George, Iowa, is working to make that diagnosis a celebration.

Five-year-old Bellamy is a little ball of energy.

"She's quite the spitfire," Bellamy's father, Lonnie Egdorf, said.

"We have a good time. She brings a lot of joy," Bellamy's mother, Leah Egdorf, said.

Bellamy is the second of two daughters. Leah and Lonnie found out about Bellamy's Down syndrome diagnosis at ten weeks gestation.

"At that point, we went into all the questions of the unknowns, the ifs, the thats, the not having an idea of what this could look like," Leah Egdorf said.

"The

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