My Life Living With Cerebral Palsy

I was born at 28 weeks in 1970.
My birth weight was 21bs....(bag of sugar so I was told when growing up)

From what I have been told that the dr's painted a dim picture of my life in years to come.
Well they were wrong, I learn't to walk on a rollator and then on to sticks....ran around with the rest of the kids on my road. I rode my bike with stableizers and went from strength to strength. Falling over was a part of my life and I carried on that way until the age of 11. Then I started to get this dreadful pain in my knee.
It turned out that I had developed 'House Maids Knee'.
I had to then go into a wheelchair so that they could treat the swelling and with the help of physio it got better...but for me the months that I'd spent in the chair meant that I could have more fun and do more, without the fear of falling over and the pain. I was now heading well into my teens and hitting the floor with a thump was getting harder to shrug off.
I stayed in my wheelchair and tried to balance the both staying mobile and 'living a life' that was right for me.
My parents never wrapped me in cotton wool and treated me as disabled. They made me learn to climb the stairs and things like that. They pushed me when I needed to be pushed to learn something...ie sitting up or putting my own shoes on brushing my hair etc.
I still cant sit up with anything behind me, but I found my own way to put my shoes on....I went on to look after children and then in 1996 I gave birth to my daughter.
I had an 8 hr labour and lots of birth partners (oh and music) which helped because the people that I chose know me and what I can do and what I cant. In the end I pushed out my daughter to the screams of pushhhhhhh....lol it was fantastic and I would do it all again. When I looked around the room other drs and midwives had snuck into the room to see what all the noise was about....I'm glad they did because hopefully on that night they learnt that if there is a will there is a way!!