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The last thing I thought about when I was expecting is special needs.
The last thing I accepted after my youngest was born is that he had
Down syndrome.
In the months that followed, the last thing I would do is accept
the bleak outlook that he had been so innocently born into. I rejected
the medical literature that prepared me for a lifetime of endless
suffering and heartache, and I searched high and low for the
testimonials; the happy endings; and the inspiring true stories of
other parents who had been down this same road.
My name is Sabrina Moyer, and I founded the community platform
known as Special Miracles. After Colton was born I made a resolution
to myself and to him; that I would become his strongest advocate, and
his devoted ally.
I found a flood of dark and unsympathetic statistics and
misconstrued information, but very little in the way of positive
approaches and the reassurance that life with Down syndrome can be
just as joyful as without it.
So I made a website doing just that; and it grew; and grew; and
today Special Miracles has thousands of members and growing daily.
I have had three pregnancies; the first was great and I had a
son, the second ended in a miscarriage, and the third; plagued with
medical problems and drowned in prescribed medication to address all
of those problems, but when my second was born the biggest 1-2 punch
of all was dealt. The diagnosis.
I cried and I asked, “Why me?”
I went through a terrible mourning period that would last about
seven weeks, but when I came out of it I realized I was simply asking
the wrong question. I should have been asking, “Why not me?”
My family and I went through a tumultuous time, but we have
banded together and overcome the pitfalls that life has brought us.
Today, Colton is a happy, healthy child and an irreplaceable
part of our family.
He has given me drive and a higher purpose to which I aspire to
every day in raising my children, as well as leading Special Miracles
into a wider audience.
It is for this reason that I hope to bring our story out into
the greater world with the hope of educating anyone who might come
across the Special Miracles Facebook page, and simultaneously easing a
new parent’s fears or misgivings of their own.
With your help I can expand my reach.
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