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Kim Morley, a mother and midwife from Hampshire, UK, explores her personal experience of sudden, unexpected disablement and her subsequent fears and expectations for pregnancy and parenthood.
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Minna Hong, disabled parent from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, writes about her experience of lone parenting.
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Mukti Jain Campion, Editor of Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, discusses guidelines for safe management of autonomic hyper-reflexia in labour for mothers with spinal cord injury.
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In DPPi issues 24 and 26, Penny Roberts from West Yorkshire, UK, described the incredible battle that she had to go through in order to retain custody of her unborn child and to obtain funding for care for both of them at home. Now, Penny looks back...
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Minu Sikand from Ontario, Canada, is a woman with a spinal cord injury. Here she shares her experience of post-natal depression after becoming a mother.
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Emily Clacy, from Reading, UK, who has a spinal cord injury, describes her experience of some of the practical and emotional aspects of disabled parenthood.
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Penny Roberts sustained spinal injuries in a parachuting accident in 1995. She has tetraplegia with some movement in her arms and wrists. Her partner left when she was eleven weeks pregnant. The local social services discussed separating Penny and he...
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In 1995, whilst in the USA, Penny Roberts was involved in a parachuting accident in which she received multiple fractures and spinal injuries. Penny is tetraplegic but has some movement in her arms and wrists. Penny now lives in West Yorkshire. She h...
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Agnes Fletcher, a disabled parent from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, talks about her experience of going through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with her husband, Adam Thomas, who has a spinal cord injury.
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Emma Maher and Jason Jones are just two of the disabled parents from New South Wales, Australia, who have benefited from cot adaptations by Technical Aid to the Disabled (TADNSW). TADNSW is a not-for-profit organisation which coordinates the work of...
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