True life accounts of Living with Cerebral Palsy

Life takes on a new meaning for handicapped youngster Susan Bennett when she takes to the water - she has just received a special award for a feat that many abled-bodied people would be hard pressed to emulate.

Kieren is our only child, I was 19 years old. The pregnancy was uneventful until 8 months. I had a scan at 8 weeks, an anomaly scan at 19 weeks and another routine scan at 32 weeks, all of which were fine and I was well. At 8 months, I started to get pains, rather like bad period pains in my back.

Tim has always had a passion to help others. This can be seen in his work with Mike Berkson. Mike touched Tim's life in many ways and it was Mike's zest for life that motivated him to write this book. Keep on Keeping on has been Tim's motto for a long time and now it will live on forever as the title of his first book.

Hi! Thanks for allowing me to post her story on your new website. I had a great pregnancy with her no complications. She was born on December 1, 1999 in Dallas, Texas at Baylor Medical Center at about 12:30. I had to have a c-section with her and Joshua (that's her big brother) due to my babies not dropping into the birth canal.

I became pregnant with Homer February of 2001. My pregnancy was very good in the beginning. When I was about 6 months pregnant, I got severely high blood pressure and preeclampsia. Although I was very uncomfortable, I loved every minute of it!

My CP is Athetoid, which affects the area of movement and motor skills. This can cause much involuntary and uncontrollable reactions when doing every day tasks which can make certain things exhausting and difficult to do.

As you would see, I have CP. Now you might be asking yourself, what is CP? Well I do not know why it is called CP, or Cerebral Palsy. But I know what CP is. It is caused by a lack of air at birth.

Desperate mum Alison Thorpe's plea for doctors to remove her severely disabled teenage daughter's womb has sparked an ethical storm.