The Year My Son and I Were Born: A Story of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery - Hardcover
A brutally honest yet beautiful journey of how one mother learned to bond with her disabled son and gained a new perspective on life.
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For most of her life, Kathryn Soper was like most people in one key respect: She hadn’t given any serious thought to the subject of disability. That all changed the day her son, Thomas, showed up with an extra chromosome.
With six other children at home, Soper was prepared for the challenges another newborn would bring. But after Thomas’s complicated birth, his diagnosis Down syndrome forced her to face her deepest fears and weaknesses, her ignorance and prejudice, and her limitations as a mother and as a human being. Her struggle, coupled with the demands of caring for a fragile baby and juggling her family’s needs, sparked the worst depression she’d experienced in decades.
In The Year My Son and I Were Born, Soper takes us along on her personal journey through Thomas’s tumultuous first year as she strives to balance the loss of the child she thought she would have with loyalty for the baby she actually holds in her arms. Can she love Thomas for himself? Can she protect him from the world’s insensitivity andfrom her own doubts?
Ultimately, Soper escaped her downward spiral of despair and emerged with newfound peace. Antidepressant therapy restored her equilibrium, and interactions with friends and family brought needed perspective. But the most profound change came through her growing relationship with Thomas. His radiant presence shone through her outer layers of self, where fear and guilt festered, and reached the center of her very being where love, acceptance, and gratitude blossomed in abundance.
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With six other children at home, Soper was prepared for the challenges another newborn would bring. But after Thomas’s complicated birth, his diagnosis Down syndrome forced her to face her deepest fears and weaknesses, her ignorance and prejudice, and her limitations as a mother and as a human being. Her struggle, coupled with the demands of caring for a fragile baby and juggling her family’s needs, sparked the worst depression she’d experienced in decades.
In The Year My Son and I Were Born, Soper takes us along on her personal journey through Thomas’s tumultuous first year as she strives to balance the loss of the child she thought she would have with loyalty for the baby she actually holds in her arms. Can she love Thomas for himself? Can she protect him from the world’s insensitivity andfrom her own doubts?
Ultimately, Soper escaped her downward spiral of despair and emerged with newfound peace. Antidepressant therapy restored her equilibrium, and interactions with friends and family brought needed perspective. But the most profound change came through her growing relationship with Thomas. His radiant presence shone through her outer layers of self, where fear and guilt festered, and reached the center of her very being where love, acceptance, and gratitude blossomed in abundance.
Advance Praise for The Year My Son and I Were Born
Taking us through her first year as the mother of a child with Down syndrome, Kathryn Soper shares the contradictory emotions, self-doubts, and even spiritual questions that many parents experience during that time but rarely admit even to friends. Along the way, her graceful, unsentimental, and gently humorous writing takes us through many struggles: navigating unfamiliar medical terrain, nurturing her six older children, keeping her marriage intact, and, above all else, accepting her son for who he is. In the end, she comes to see how to live life in a new way and so did I.”
Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister The Year My Son and I Were Born is a story of how sometimes life’s lessons come atgreat personal cost but that if we allow our hearts to open, even a mother’s deepestdespair can be transformed.”
Jennifer Graf Groneberg, author of Road Map to Holland
Taking us through her first year as the mother of a child with Down syndrome, Kathryn Soper shares the contradictory emotions, self-doubts, and even spiritual questions that many parents experience during that time but rarely admit even to friends. Along the way, her graceful, unsentimental, and gently humorous writing takes us through many struggles: navigating unfamiliar medical terrain, nurturing her six older children, keeping her marriage intact, and, above all else, accepting her son for who he is. In the end, she comes to see how to live life in a new way and so did I.”
Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister The Year My Son and I Were Born is a story of how sometimes life’s lessons come atgreat personal cost but that if we allow our hearts to open, even a mother’s deepestdespair can be transformed.”
Jennifer Graf Groneberg, author of Road Map to Holland
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