Title Raising Henry : a memoir of motherhood, disability, and discovery / Rachel Adams

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- PART ONE -- Arrival -- My Favorite Freak -- The Phantom Nephew -- Learning Curve -- Christmas -- The Feeding Tube -- The Nursing Circle -- What Peggy Did -- PART TWO -- Aiming High Enough -- Early Intervention -- Choices -- Visiting the Front Lines -- Cake -- Brothers -- Inclusion -- A Simple Place -- Finding a Voice -- The Girl Down the Street -- Surprised by Disability -- PART THREE -- Transition -- Always Something -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography Summary Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family's encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today's knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family's story is impossible to forget Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Adams, Rachel, 1968- SUBJECT Adams, Rachel, 1968- fast Subject Down syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography Developmentally disabled children -- United States -- Biography Parents of developmentally disabled children -- United States -- Biography Mothers and sons -- United States -- Biography Parents. People with mental disabilities. Mother and child. Down syndrome. Children. Parents Persons with Mental Disabilities Mother-Child Relations Down Syndrome Developmental Disabilities Child mentally handicapped. children (people by age group) parents. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical. MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities. People with mental disabilities Parents Mother and child Down syndrome Children Developmentally disabled children Down syndrome -- Patients Mothers and sons Parents of developmentally disabled children United States Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300184297 0300184298 1299841295 9781299841291

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