There are a lot of things that you need permission from the world to do.

Famously, being a parent isn't one of them.

But when Kristina Motucky considered becoming a mom, she had a hard time giving herself

the go ahead, even after she got pregnant.

That was a time when I felt like it wasn't fully okay for me to be a parent.

It wasn't that Kristen doubted herself so much.

It was more the course of voices around her.

I just had this feeling of skepticism from the nurses and social working people in the hospital.

And I sort of had the feeling that, well, you know, there are so many people who fit

whatever the profile of normal is who turn out to be very, you know, either abusive

or neglecting parents and don't get, you know, don't sort of get flagged as being such.

And, you know, I really wanted this baby and was planning to take care of him and, you

know, to be met with some skepticism was really hard.

Kristen has been blind since she was born and her husband James is also blind.

As her belly grew, Kristen could feel that people were treating her pregnancy differently.

A lot of pregnant people would complain that, you know, strangers would come up to them

and like touch their stomach or whatever and congratulate them when they just wanted to

like go to the store or go to work out.

And I never really had that experience.

Strangers wouldn't talk to me about it.

So I kind of started wanting people to talk to me about it.

I remember on the train platform I was very pregnant one day and I was so excited when

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