It’s been a while in the planning, however our first Source Mama Live Series event of the year all came together beautifully last Thursday night. You can watch the replay right here: Held at Brisbane’s ultra-luxe Cloudland, it was a night to remember as three fierce mamas took to the stage to speak to our …
Mum of five, Katrina Bartninkaitis knows all too well just how difficult the juggle of sourcing and managing support workers can be. Equally as complex and challenging, has been finding people who genuinely connect and engage with her three young children – each living with multiple disabilities, as well as her husband John, who has …
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By Sarah Thomas When my then three-year-old son Lewis suffered a major stroke, life as I knew it had changed forever. Lewis was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy and ADHD, a combination of conditions which meant eating was a very difficult for him, if not a dangerous thing to do. Lewis was on and off …
In 2009 my ‘Ruby Star’ was born. She graced this world with such ease and beauty and not a concern in the world. A couple of months later things started to change, and an unsettling feeling started to simmer in every bit of my body. I knew something wasn’t right. Ruby developed seizures, extreme and …
By REBEKAH DEVLIN “Can I go in front of you,” the man in his mid to late 60s asked waving his three packets of mushrooms in my general direction and starting to walk past me. “Um, what?” I said as I looked up from loading the last item onto the Aldi conveyer belt. I was …
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Do you ever call on favours from friends and your network to help out supporting your child? Do you wish you could formally employ them as support workers? Good news. You can. How? Well, there’s an organisation in Australia that has spent the last 10 years developing a service the enables parents to do just …
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By Kelly Wilton The infamous day of love is here – Valentine’s Day. How do you possibly keep a spark going when you haven’t a spark to spare?! We completely understand if it’s not on your list of high priorities. As special needs parents in a COVID world, it’s hard to keep the love going …
By Rachel Williams October is World down syndrome month. As older parents, Cally and Nigel Ward always knew there was a possibility of having a baby with Down syndrome. But not once did it deter them from creating the baby of their dreams. Their baby, Sarah, is now 12 and is an integral member of …
By Kelly Wilton With October being ADHD awareness month, it only recently dawned on me that this is the first year of adding this very important acronym to our family list of diagnoses. Families with kids with co-morbidity health issues, know only too well that we can’t deal with everything at once. Different things – …
By Lani Knutson We moved to Milwaukee in the US when our son, Peter, was a baby. At that point, we already knew something was wrong. He had been diagnosed with torticollis (a common occurrence in babies today) at Seattle Children’s Hospital, so we immediately set up appointments with the Craniofacial Specialist and Physical Therapy at …
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