tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post3590837167386355561..comments2023-05-29T06:14:43.964-07:00Comments on 21 + 21 + 21 = ?: UnacceptableExtranjerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972708570414496825noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-88103094614492678022013-10-31T04:00:25.794-07:002013-10-31T04:00:25.794-07:00This is a lovely and refreshing read. My husband a...This is a lovely and refreshing read. My husband and I also waited to have children--12 years, much in the same way you did. It was a very--how will it affect us?<br /><br />The difference was the blip. I worried all through my pregnancy, and after. I worried about everything, but them again, I worry over if I should use margarine or butter. I worry over my cat getting enough vitamin E. Worry is part of being me! But acceptance--that was immediate. I accept my Autistic Tourettic OCD boy with the whole of my heart. No fix, no cure. It feels more wholesome to worry about a child's happiness, something you can change.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02454258188873701413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-17047255746390319162013-10-24T16:41:37.611-07:002013-10-24T16:41:37.611-07:00I'm just loving all the posts on this hop :) I...I'm just loving all the posts on this hop :) I feel much the same about my daughter as you do about yours. How to bring her up into somebody she can be proud of <3 Sophie's Trainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07774177895296697594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-71911065217462381242013-10-23T13:34:10.830-07:002013-10-23T13:34:10.830-07:00"How I can be the best mom for my kid. How I ..."How I can be the best mom for my kid. How I can make it so that she can grow to be the kind of person she wants to be. How I can make it so that she can make her own choices, make them well, and make them so that they make her happy and her life good. How I can help her grow into her own person."<br />I would suggest the above is not exclusive to parenting a child with DS - surely it is what every thinking parent wants for each of their children. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447304884440166951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-40100892159231159172013-10-23T07:52:55.459-07:002013-10-23T07:52:55.459-07:00I came back to reread this again.
"But I do...I came back to reread this again. <br /><br />"But I don't have to take it. I don't have to accept it. I can fight it. Because if I don't I won't be the kind of mother she deserves." Exactly.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing this in the hop. xox<br />Psychojenichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936930614210195529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-37971532660363624202013-10-22T11:32:49.762-07:002013-10-22T11:32:49.762-07:00Yes. We don't have to accept it as "it i...Yes. We don't have to accept it as "it is the way that it's always been done". Excellent post.Psychojenichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936930614210195529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-41488751805518297812013-10-22T10:52:32.192-07:002013-10-22T10:52:32.192-07:00Awesome. 16 pregnancy tests...really? That's h...Awesome. 16 pregnancy tests...really? That's hilarious!<br />And in other news, if we could just get everyone else in the world to focus on being good parents, well then, our kids would be much better off. Sigh.<br />Keep doing all that! Mardrahttp://www.mardrasikora.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586234076318438189.post-69202717095523574022013-10-22T09:44:51.265-07:002013-10-22T09:44:51.265-07:00Becoming a mother was definitely the BIGGEST, most...Becoming a mother was definitely the BIGGEST, most earth-shattering thing I could have done, too. We'd been married for 15 years, trying to conceive for @8, before Samantha was born. The diagnosis of Down syndrome shocked me, made me sad since I knew this would be my only child, but then became a tiny little detail for us as well. We wanted a baby, not a diagnosis. We had a baby. Our baby. And I truly hope I can be the *right* mother for her. Our lives are ordinary, our days busy. There are certainly those *things* that come along with Down syndrome that can't be found in the typical population, but we deal with them. They're a part of our lives. A part of hers. But I love watching her grow and develop, and know she's going to be an amazing young woman, especially if I work to give her the tools to find her place, accepted, in society.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963099760885760598noreply@blogger.com