{"id":3168,"date":"2018-05-08T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2018-05-08T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:26:14","slug":"at-mothering-with-a-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/at-mothering-with-a-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"AT Mothering With A Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written By: Liz Pazdral, Executive Director of the State Independent Living Council (SILC) and Madeleine\u2019s Mom<\/h3>\n

If you are living with a disability, you know that modifying tasks is the key to success.\u00a0 This Mother\u2019s Day, I would like to identify some Assistive Technology I used to successfully mother when my daughter was a baby.<\/p>\n

Humorist Erma Bombeck once wrote,”When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”<\/p>\n

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Picture of wooden crib with modified sliding door<\/p><\/div>\n

My husband, Mike, modified a wooden crib from Ikea, to make it easy for me to climb in \u2013 and out \u2013 of our daughter\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n

When you are a mom, you learn that you can do almost *anything* one-handed.<\/p>\n

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Picture of a small black safety harness with lifting straps<\/p><\/div>\n

With a custom-made lifting harness, that includes safely lifting a baby.<\/p>\n

I got the pattern for mine from \u201cThrough The Looking Glass\u201d (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lookingglass.org\/<\/a>) and found a guy who makes custom climbing gear to sew it up for me.\u00a0 After my girl was walking, I passed it on to another paraplegic mom.<\/p>\n

Not all Assistive Technology is custom-made.\u00a0 Sometimes off-the-shelf products work fine!<\/p>\n

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Picture of bath support ramp<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of one-handed, a fabric bath support, stretched over a frame, helped me to bathe my daughter with one arm while I held myself up with the other.\u00a0 I passed it onto a blind Mom who said it really helped her out.<\/p>\n

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Picture of Fisher Price \u201cSpace Saver\u201d Highchair<\/p><\/div>\n

This high chair rested on the floor and made it easy for me to feed my baby.<\/p>\n

Thousands of women with significant disabilities mother thriving babies. If you need support, reach out to your community. Solutions exist for your mothering dilemma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written By: Liz Pazdral, Executive Director of the State Independent Living Council (SILC) and Madeleine\u2019s Mom If you are living with a disability, you know that modifying tasks is the key to success.\u00a0 This Mother\u2019s Day, I would like to identify some Assistive Technology I used to successfully mother when my daughter was a baby.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[71,5,16,90],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inventive-at","category-success-stories","tag-accessibility","tag-independence","tag-mobility","tag-mothers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}