Letters to Me: Dear Peta

Peta my darling I want you to know 

I want to assure you that you will be okay.

That moment your world was shattered and your life felt devastating. The fear of the unknown will challenge you, and it will change your life in many ways. However, you will be strong and able to do all the things you need to do.

I understand that reading the ultrasound results and hiding them for three days until you could speak those words will cause trauma. However, you will be okay.

The questions and concerns you will have are normal. You will wonder how you can have a baby with a missing nose and how that is possible. You will question your ability to do this and how life will be different. These unknowns will become known as you learn together.

Time takes time.

Eight years later, the trauma will be far from your mind as life brings you so much love and joy. You will laugh and cry, have a best friend who you are lucky enough to call your mother, and your child, Nathan, will radiate love and share his unconditional difference with the world.

You will heal and grow. Your child will teach you valuable lessons. Your life will be different, but everything you needed was written in that devastating envelope, and that moment became my golden moment in time.

Time takes time.

You are going to be more than okay. 

Because having a child with down syndrome will make you the best version of yourself 

And you got this 

Strap in, hold on, and enjoy the ride.

Written by Peta, Ambassador Nathan's mum