الجمعة، 18 ديسمبر 2015

‘No one expects people with disabilities to have a family’

Cerebral palsy didn’t rob Aideen Blackborough of the desire to become a mother – but she faced other obstacles, from prejudice to logistics and, not least, her own fears

Aideen Blackborough’s mum and dad’s attitude to her disability was to see her as simply another of their four children – and because of this “just bloody well get on with it” attitude, Aideen grew up assuming that becoming a mother herself was something that would just happen. “I’d always wanted to be a mum, find the man of my dreams, have several children and live happily ever after,” she says. “My disability didn’t rob me of those maternal wants.”

Today, Aideen is, indeed, a mum – to Jack, a two-year-old bundle of energy who’s at nursery when I visit her at home in Birmingham. A large picture of him as a baby is on the wall behind Aideen – he’s beaming at me throughout our conversation.

I was always eager to prove to people and myself, that I could look after Jack. It was my decision to have a child

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1IZZzPW

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