You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for Mom's episode 149.

How to teach your children about disability.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for Mom's who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host, Rachel Nielsen.

Thank you so much for being here.

A year or so ago, a podcast listener sent me an article that she'd read on the blog Cup of Joe and said,

I would love to hear this author on your podcast.

As soon as I read the opening paragraphs of that article, I mean literally within sentences.

I knew that I needed to get the author of the article Amy Webb on the podcast for a conversation about talking to our children about disability.

Amy is an artist, writer, mother, and creator of the popular blog, This Little Mickey State Home.

As the special needs mom, she advocates for the disability and special needs community through her interviews and writing on her blog and other platforms.

She's the author of the award-winning children's book, When Charlie Met Emma, which I promptly purchased as soon as I read her article on Cup of Joe,

and it is one of my children's all-time favorites.

The message, the writing, the illustrations are all perfection.

Amy's second book, Awesomely Emma, just released last week, and it is every bit as fantastic as the first.

I firmly believe that these are books that every family needs in their children's library, and I hope that this conversation with the author today will only make the books all the more meaningful for you.

To introduce Amy and her work, I want all of you to experience that Cup of Joe article the way that I did by hearing those compelling opening paragraphs.

I was going to start this episode by reading them to you, but then I thought, why would I read them when I could ask the author herself to do it?

Here is Amy, setting the stage for our 3 and 30 discussion today by reading the beginning of her article, which is titled, Navigating a Special Needs Encounter.

Here we go.

It was during our routine 18-week ultrasound that we found out our second daughter would be disabled.

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