When a mom was pregnant with a baby with Down syndrome, her doctor suggested she terminate the pregnancy. However, she and her husband strongly held on to their faith and decided to go ahead with their pregnancy. Now, their 6-year-old daughter is excelling in school and communicating better and better every day. When Courtney Baker, 49, a mother of three from Central Florida, was pregnant with Emersyn, a prenatal test confirmed that there was a high chance that Baker and her husband Matt were expecting a child with Down syndrome. “We were in shock. We were devastated, but only because we were ignorant to any facts on Down syndrome,” Baker told The Epoch Times in an email interview. “We only knew the worst-case scenarios, and we had no support whatsoever when we left our OBs office. We both felt completely lost.” The OB suggested a few “options” to the couple in …