Mastering dressing a baby without moving her fingers is no small feat, but this quadriplegic mom has it figured out. https://youtu.be/d-h9Ls40umE Women in her community had a great innovation that made a big difference. “They put velcro instead of snaps,” Meg explains.…
Parenting one small child is a challenge, add another, and you’ve got your hands full. Add a spinal cord injury, and you’ve got a few more challenges to manage. Christina Passarella is a paraplegic and the proud mom of…
With her baby’s feet moving around, putting on baby socks is not an easy task for a quadriplegic with no finger movement! https://youtu.be/92v0e_N-QxU Meg starts by using both hands to get an opening in the top of the sock. Then,…
If you’re in a wheelchair and can’t do your own independent transfers to the floor safely, your bed is a great place to play with your baby. For Meg, a quadriplegic mom, she finds it easier to transfer baby from…
Kara and Adam are parents with Osteogenesis Imperfecta who began their journey as parents with the birth of their daughter, Hannah. “Hannah notices when people stare,” Kara notes, but her daughter doesn’t worry about it. Mistaking the word “disability” for “possibility”, little…
Colby Garcia, is a quadriplegic mom. Both of her children who were conceived naturally, carried and then delivered via c-section. She struggled with urinary tract infections during her pregnancy (a common complaint), but her greatest complications had nothing to do with…
Before you can feed your baby, you have to make the bottle! Meg Johnson, a quadriplegic mom, describes making a bottle for her daughter without moving her fingers. https://youtu.be/7Y2SzohwnHA The bottles are kept in an accessible location in the kitchen, and Meg…
Figuring out how to push a wheelchair while carrying a baby is a big challenge. Meg Johnson, a quadriplegic mom tried pushing one hand at a time and holding her baby in the other, but that was inefficient. “I can’t go…
Kaini Zhang, a quadriplegic in Singapore, was married with two children when she broke her neck in a car accident. “My first concern was my children,” she shared. Her oldest daughter was 3 years old and her younger daughter had…
Meg Johnson, quadriplegic mom, demonstrates how she gets her baby in and out of a crib. https://youtu.be/A3QTiyjT9ec Meg has a crib with a door that opens on the side, allowing her wheelchair to roll under and get close to the edge, making…