Connecting Carers To Disability Support and Services - online disability directory Victoria
Motherhood started 8 weeks early for me. One minute I was working full time as a Graphic Designer, and the next I went into labour and didn’t turn up for work ever again. The surprise of meeting my son 8 weeks early was a small shock, compared to being thrown on a huge roller coaster which suddenly spun out of control. I look back now and see hours of sitting by Bailey’s humidicrib, worrying whenever a specialist walked in the room, and waiting for every test result.
My beautiful daughter Jasmine wanted to beat her brother’s record and come into the world 8 weeks and 4 days early. When I woke up the next morning after a caesarean birth, I was wheeled down to her room full of other babies. I asked “which one is mine?” So little and in a humidicrib where I could not hold my baby…..again. Jasmine came eight weeks early and the fear began all over again.
All I wanted was to have a baby born full term. To have a room filled with flowers and balloons and only family and friends coming and going. Not nurses pinching for blood, doctors looking over my babies and taking them away. My heart still mourns those missed precious few moments of meeting your child for the first time and holding them. Unable to move, I just watched as they were whisked away from me.
Out of my journey so far meeting many, many parents who have been thrown into parenthood with an additional needs child, has been the most challenging. For years my heart has heard so many tear jerking stories from parents about what they have been through and the lack of support they experienced.
Hearing these stories over and over, grew my passion to help others to source information to assist them. Not only for their additional needs child, but the whole family. So, Helping Hand Is Here was born out of my heart for other carers. Hearing their exhausted cries for help and assistance gave birth to an online disability directory that has been flooded with users from all over Victoria.
The directory has proven to be a powerful information platform providing carers, families, health professionals, teachers, nurses, child care centres and therapists valuable information for all additional needs people. The many testimonies on our directory are proof of how needed it is.
Please look over our directory and use it as a daily resource to assist you caring for the additional needs people in your life. Visit: www.helpinghandishere.com.au
Kind Regards
Michelle Jankovic
M: 0408 153 642
Connecting carers to
disability support & services
