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<\/p>\nBecause of her blindness, Ebony Uamaki was bullied as a youngster, but you’d think that by the time she was an adult, she’d moved past it.<\/p>\n
However, that was nothing in comparison to what her prenatal care providers informed her.
\nHer doctor didn’t congratulate her; instead, he expressed doubts about her parenting skills.<\/p>\n
This perspective perfectly describes Ebony’s largest challenge in adjusting to her disability: other people’s thoughts and attitudes.<\/p>\n
She overcame them all and went on to become an admirable mother to four young children, all under the age of four.<\/p>\n
At the age of two, with just 5% vision, the now-29-year-old Brisbane resident was identified as having retinitis pigmentosa (RP).<\/p>\n
She currently only has 1% vision in her left eye, is blind in her right eye, and is only able to distinguish between day and night by looking at shadows.<\/p>\n
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She has nevertheless raised four-year-old Arorangi, three-year-old Tavake, and one-year-old twins Manaia and Koia in a loving home.<\/p>\n
She was aware of the challenges being a mother would bring. For instance, she is unable to drive.<\/p>\n
Even worse, a lot of people don’t think she’ll be able to take care of her kids.<\/p>\n
She said there was a lot of uncertainty about whether she could parent because she is blind and whether she would require a lot of assistance.<\/p>\n
Ebony first met Adam in the middle of 2016, and by the end of the year, she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
The couple went to Ebony’s doctor for a normal check-up in January 2017 when she was five weeks pregnant. <\/p>\n
They were eager to become parents and were met with uncomfortable conversations from her doctor.<\/p>\n
According to Ebony, \u2018She recommended termination on several occasions throughout the consultation, which <\/p>\n
was quite shocking to me at the time,\u2019 because I might pass the disease on to my children.The doctor also questioned her ability to be a mom.<\/p>\n
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I felt extremely dejected after that consultation, and it brought back everything from the past, Ebony remarked.<\/p>\n
A little less than two weeks later, Ebony miscarried. The choice to change doctors was straightforward.<\/p>\n
In April, she found out she was expecting Arorangi, who is now four years old.<\/p>\n