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Raising Henry, a memoir of motherhood, disability, & discovery, Rachel Adams

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Raising Henry, a memoir of motherhood, disability, & discovery, Rachel Adams

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Includes bibliographical references

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Raising Henry

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Rachel Adams

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a memoir of motherhood, disability, & discovery

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Rachel Adams' 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

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