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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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Katina Wright, a mother with multiple sclerosis from Cornwall, UK, discusses her experience of parental guilt and the importance of celebrating and utilising the ‘can dos’.
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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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Two men with spinal injuries - Jim Barker, from Surrey, England and Brian Hucker from Bicester, England – each describe their experiences of fertility treatment. 
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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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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 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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Minna Hong, disabled parent from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, writes about her experience of lone parenting.
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There are various obstetric reasons why any woman may be advised to have her baby delivered by Caesarean section. Clare Brook has a back condition: mechanical instability compounded by chronic pain syndrome. Here she talks about why and how she made...
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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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Deborah Morgan-Graham from Derbyshire, UK, discusses the dilemmas she faced when she became pregnant.
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