EP 237: Zoe's Story with Karmel Garcia: Down Syndrome Awareness Month
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Karmel Garcia is on this episode sharing the story of her 3 year old, Zoe, who was born with Down Syndrome. She takes us from the beginning with a prenatal diagnosis, the birth and through her first three years of life. Karmel started to see a need for families to have therapuetic tools to work with their kids at home and has started Zoe's Tool Box.
https://www.instagram.com/karmelita16/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/zoes_toolbox/?hl=en
Non Profit
Every baby born with Down syndrome will have their own unique experiences and abilities. Some will have many medical procedures in their first year, and some will be born never spending a day in the hospital. For any diagnosis the first year is the hardest to navigate, and we are here to be a box of sunshine to those families.
Books to check out:
Different - A Great Thing to Be
What's Inside you, Is Inside Me Too
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Maraculous Mama's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and I'm so glad |
| 0:11.2 | that you're with us today. I had on a great guest last week talking about postpartum healing |
| 0:19.6 | the RUV-AQway which I really didn't know too much about and RUV-Dick. I always like butcher |
| 0:28.5 | pronouncing that word in the different forms but it was a great episode within my endupry |
| 0:33.8 | and she offered a lot of insight into how we can nurture and nourish our postpartum |
| 0:41.1 | so make sure that you go back and listen to that episode. And today I'm super excited |
| 0:44.9 | to have on Carmel Garcia talking about world Down syndrome month and she shares the story |
| 0:50.3 | of her daughter Zoe with us and just the passion that she has for creating resources for families |
| 1:01.4 | that have kids with Down syndrome and the nonprofit that she started and like after she started |
| 1:08.4 | really recognizing that there was a need for it. So I'm really excited for her to share this |
| 1:12.0 | episode with us. It's officially October and the weather outside of Chicago is gorgeous. I'm |
| 1:19.0 | actually staring out the window right now at this beautiful tree that's like half red and orange |
| 1:25.2 | and just a little bit of green left and those leaves are just gonna turn super quickly here |
| 1:30.5 | and fall off and it's always a reminder to me the fall time like what what do I need to let go |
| 1:37.2 | of in my life what am I okay if I shook the tree a little bit if it just fell off and it's always |
| 1:43.7 | a good reminder to me and I feel like lately that's something that I've been thinking of a lot just |
| 1:48.1 | because I put I mean all of us put a lot of stress and things on our plate and then get overwhelmed |
| 1:54.0 | and I'm like okay what can I just let go of what can I put on the back burner for now so it's not |
| 1:58.8 | taking up any mental space I know that there's a million things I want to do there were some goals |
| 2:05.5 | that I had that I'm like okay by September this thing's gonna be done and I'm I had to |
| 2:10.6 | back burner quite a few of those projects and things that I want to get done because |
| 2:16.0 | of the mental load and then just with mother and the physical load and give myself permission to |
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