Special Kids
Chosen Moms
A Mother’s Guide To Raising Her Special-Needs Child
Special Kids
Chosen Moms
A Mother’s Guide to Raising her Special-Needs Child
Are you raising or caring for a special needs child? Help and inspiration from someone who has “been there and done that” is at hand—a mom who learned “on the job” by caring for her blind, severely developmentally delayed, and medically fragile son.
Born out of experience, this practical yet full-of-heart manual will help mothers navigate the demands of the medical world, as well as organize their home routines to better care for their child. Beyond the practical, it is a heart-warming reminder that God has a plan for your life.
You’ll find:
- Advice for organizing your medical and insurance information
- Ideas for streamlining your home life and schedule
- Suggestions for recipes for the table as well as a successful marriage
- Help with cradle to grave necessities
- Encouragement, Scriptures, and resources to ease the load.
God chose you specifically to raise and love your child and wants you to keep your eyes on him and not your circumstances.
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Every 4 1/2 minutes, a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States. Birth defects affect 1 in every 33 babies born in the United States each year. That translates into about 120,000 babies,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1]
When one mother’s son contracted group B strep on the third day of his life, he became a part of that statistic. Sandra Nieto, author of Special Kids—Chosen Moms: A Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Special Needs Child (Redemption Press), says, “My beautiful child, Clay, was blind, had cerebral palsy, was fed via a G-tube with a twenty-four-hour feeding pump, and took as many as thirty-two medications a day.”
Because of what she learned on her almost-sixteen-year journey with her son, she has written a practical and supportive guide to help prepare, organize, and encourage mothers as they raise their special needs child. In this book she helps mothers face many difficult decisions regarding healthcare, schools, and respite and gives tips on organizing the household, recipes, and Scriptures to feed the soul. Nieto says, “My hope is to remind mothers of God’s love and to appreciate that they are ‘chosen’ by our heavenly Father to nurture these little ones.
[1] “Birth Defects are Common, Costly, and Critical,” June 28, 2023, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov.
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About The Author
Sandra Nieto served on the board of the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation from 2000 to 2003. Married and the mother of four adult children in a blended family, she and her husband live in Arizona. She enjoys walking, hiking, and running and has run half marathons, a full marathon in Paris, France, and two triathlons.
Sandra writes at www.sandranieto.com but Special Kids—Chosen Moms: A Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Special Needs Child is her debut book.
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