{"id":20329,"date":"2026-03-08T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:16:33","slug":"adopted-baby-with-down-syndrome-goes-viral-after-smiling-for-mom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20329","title":{"rendered":"Adopted baby with Down syndrome goes viral after smiling for mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"300\">Few things are as heartwarming as a baby\u2019s big smile. A video shared by the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Down Syndrome Adoption Network<\/span><\/span> went viral after showing an adopted baby with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Down Syndrome<\/span><\/span> beaming with joy at her adoptive mother. The touching clip has been viewed more than 14 million times.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"382\">The baby\u2019s happiness clearly shows she feels safe and loved in her new family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"650\">The organization, founded in 1982 by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Robin Steele<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">David Steele<\/span><\/span> after they adopted a girl with Down syndrome named Martha, works to ensure every child with the condition has the chance to grow up in a loving home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"740\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Moments like this simple, joyful smile remind us how powerful love and family can be. \ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Dafjczmb8o\" data-id=\"_Dafjczmb8o\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Baby with Down syndrome can't stop smiling\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Dafjczmb8o?autoplay=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things are as heartwarming as a baby\u2019s big smile. A video shared by the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network went viral after showing an adopted baby with Down Syndrome beaming with joy at her adoptive mother. The touching clip has been viewed more than 14 million times. The baby\u2019s happiness clearly shows she feels&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20329\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Adopted baby with Down syndrome goes viral after smiling for mom&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20331,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions\/20331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}