Nancy Valko's review of "A Special Mother is Born" in "Voices"

I have always admired the advocacy for the unborn of  Nancy Valko, member of Women for Faith and Family and Secretary of Nurses for Life. I watcher her on "Faith & Culture" and never dreamed I would edit a book which would contain her story about her precious daughter Karen, who was born with Down syndrome. Her story, included in the review is Chapter 15, entitled, "The Hospital Visit".
 It was an honor to work with her, and to publish a link to her excellent review here. 

Comment from contributing author Diane Grover

When MaryEllen was born, the doctors inundated us with the science and statistics of why she had Down syndrome, what her chances were of this going wrong, and that going wrong, and every thing you can imagine to get depressed over as a parent of a new born baby. While this was going on, I craved reading something about my journey from my faith perspective. Well, 6 years later, there is a book that is exactly that! It is ABSOLUTELY beautiful! I am one of the contributors, and I am VERY proud to be one! Leticia Velasquez it is absolutely beautiful! This book needs to get in as many hands as many people as is possible, whether you have a child with special needs or not, whether you are Catholic or not. It is wonderful! Thank you Leticia, for all of your hard work!

Theresa Thomas reviews "A Special Mother is Born"

Thank you to my friend Theresa Thomas, co-author with Patti McGuire Armstrong of "Stories for the Homeschool Heart" to which I was a contributor, for your beautifully written review of my book over at The Integrated Catholic Life. 
Here's her opening paragraph,
"A Special Mother is Born, by Leticia Velasquez, is an amazing and moving book for and about “special mothers” – ordinary women called to live to their fullest potential by parenting children with special needs such as autism, Down syndrome, Trisomy 18 and Asperger’s syndrome. The book contains touching personal accounts (and pictures!) of families chosen by God to raise children with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Each story, by a different contributor, is an honest look at challenges faced by these families. Each story shares one mother’s fears, hopes, challenges, joys and eventual strong faith.  The stories are riveting, inspirational and … beautiful."