There's a show currently running on BBC Lifestyle (on Foxtel) called 'Child of Our Time'. One of the families featured on it is a single Mum who has shortened arms (so her hands are at her shoulders) and shortened legs (feet at thighs). She is absolutely inspiring, drives, looks after herself and her son on her own since his birth (they live in a house alone, she has some assistance from a nanny, but is certainly his main carer) and uses her mouth to do just about everything.
Not sure how it affected her pg and birth, but OMG as a parent she puts some able-bodied people I know to shame!
Yes, I watched an episode of a show called "Amazing Medical Stories" about a woman who had a condition called "sacral agenesis" - meaning the lowest part of her spine had not developed. Her legs had been amputated as they were useless to her and just got in her way. Her body effectively ended at her groin. She got around by walking on her hands! Most amazingly she was married, worked as a mechanic and managed to give birth to and raise a healthy son as well as helping to look after her father who I think had dementia! After seeing that I thought, what do I have to worry about?
I don't have a disability, but I know a woman on another forum in the UK who has severe RA and has been in a wheelchair many years. She had a lovely son by planned C/S and seemed to have a good pregnancy. I also saw two stories on TV about women with partial paralysis (one a paraplegic one a high quad) who both had normal vaginal deliveries. So I guess there's no real reason why things can't go well and normally for you but each person and each baby are individuals, your pregnancy and birth may be very different.
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