EP69: Nothing Down About It with Oakley Peterson
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Elizabeth brings on Oakley Peterson to share her journey of raising a son with Down Syndrome, Welles. Oakley talks about celebrating differences and making the world a better place through inclusivity and education. She teaches us about what life is like with Welles and the value he ads to our society. She is full of love, wisdom and light and gives all parents great advice and take aways to apply to your children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Miraculous Mamas. I have Oakley Peterson here with me today to share |
| 0:12.6 | her story about her family and her son Wells and just thank you so much for coming on. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, I'm excited to be here. I first of all, I love your name Oakley. I was talking to my |
| 0:24.2 | husband the other day. I was like, I love the name Oakley. I hated it growing up because I |
| 0:30.7 | was named up my great grandpa and now I love it because no one else my age has it. |
| 0:35.0 | That's very true. I don't think I've ever really heard it. So, yeah, different. Yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | Different, we like different around here. Yes, but thank you so much for taking the time to come on |
| 0:49.0 | the podcast and share the journey of your family and you have an amazing blog. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh, you're so sweet. That you started. I feel like my blog's terrible. I'm good at Instagram. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm getting better at blogging. I have some blog posts in the work, but I'm not as on top of it as |
| 1:06.3 | a blogger that I'd like to be, but I can at least throw something on Instagram about every day. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah. Yeah. And you're starting a YouTube channel. Yeah, we've got a lot of things in the work. |
| 1:17.5 | You're just executing them. We're getting there. We're figuring it all out. Yeah. Well, |
| 1:22.3 | I'm just going to kind of hand the microphone to you and let you just kind of share a little bit |
| 1:27.6 | about your story. Okay. So, we originally had no intent of, you know, having this kind of Instagram |
| 1:37.2 | influence or family. This is family that we've kind of evolved into. It all started when we |
| 1:44.0 | decided to have our second son, well, our second child, our first son, our daughter Scarlet was |
| 1:49.6 | a year and we decided to get pregnant again. I really wanted to have my first two close-in-age |
| 1:54.9 | like my sister and I were. And so we got pregnant as well. It was a boy. We were over the moon. |
| 2:02.2 | Scott and I both have all sisters. So it was so exciting to be able to get to do the boy thing. |
| 2:07.5 | And then we got a surprise at his birth with the diagnosis of Down Syndrome. |
| 2:14.4 | They, you know, they took him out. It was a pretty rust, quick delivery. And when they took him out, |
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