{"id":60184,"date":"2025-05-21T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60184"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:28:30","slug":"couple-with-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60184","title":{"rendered":"Couple with Down\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-442.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-442.png 410w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-442-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa\u2019s Remarkable Journey as a Mother with Down Syndrome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world where societal expectations often push couples toward traditional life paths, those who deviate\u2014especially people with disabilities\u2014face intense scrutiny. Lisa, a woman with Down syndrome from California, defied stereotypes when she became pregnant at 29. Despite skepticism and criticism, Lisa was determined to become a mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by her mother Patti, Lisa continued working, living independently, and prepared for motherhood. Her pregnancy was treated as high-risk, and her son Nic, who was also born with Down syndrome, arrived four weeks early. Though Lisa and Nic\u2019s father initially tried to co-parent, the arrangement didn\u2019t last, and Lisa eventually raised Nic as a single mom\u2014with strong support from Patti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60101\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa\u2019s Remarkable Journey as a Mother with Down Syndrome In a world where societal expectations often push couples toward traditional life paths, those who deviate\u2014especially people with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60193,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184\/revisions\/60193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}