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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