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Louise Jensen, a mother of three from Northamptonshire, UK, who has experienced chronic pelvic girdle pain (PGP) for five years, talks about adjusting to life with a disability and how a change of attitude has helped her to live life to the full.
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Lorraine Smith, a disabled parent from the UK, talks about the challenges she is facing in getting appropriate provision for transport to school for her children.
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Karen Whitehead is an Information Officer for the DPPi Information Service, based at the National Centre for Disabled Parents in London. She talks about the challenges of parenting, living and working with osteoporosis and her new role at DPPI.
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Bryan Scatchard, a new father with rheumatoid arthritis, from Lincolnshire, UK, talked to Shanta Everington about the joys and challenges of parenthood.
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PeterGray, from Kent UK, whose wife, Mary has pregnancy-associated osteoporosis, talks about their experiences of childcare equipment for parents with back problems.
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Tracey Johnston of Poole, Dorset, UK, talks about her experience of stroke and motherhood, and how she adjusted successfully to one-handed parenting.
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DPPI Information Service has received a number of calls from parents and prospective parents, with back problems. This article describes some parents’ experiences and provides suggestions for dealing with basic parenting tasks.
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Rosaleen Mansfield, from London, UK, describes her experience of being a disabled grandparent.
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Good practice
Following up a recent enquiry, from a disabled mother-to-be, led DPPi Information Officer, Coral Jepson, to contact the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association (OAA).
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Deborah Morgan-Graham from Derbyshire, UK, discusses the dilemmas she faced when she became pregnant.
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Research
Dr Julie Barlow, Director, and Lesley Cullen, Researcher from the Centre for Psychosocial Research in Rheumatic Diseases, discuss research on parenting and ankylosing spondylitis.
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Clare Brook from south London, UK, has a chronic back condition. In DPPi Issue No. 21 she talked about the delivery of her first child by Caesarean section. This is the very different story of the birth of her second baby.
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