Steve Wellings
Australian Royal Australian Air Force officer and father of Ben, whose birth injury story he shared on The Empowered Parent podcast; posted to the Greater Seattle Area 2000–2003.
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Oct 14, 2026
Steve WellingsGUEST
And we as a family had become comfortable in the knowledge that he was going to live a long life after we got through the early hurdles of it, the early stages of his life.
Steve WellingsGUEST
And we used to talk about our little boy growing old with us and what we would do in terms of safety nets for when we were too old and frail to pick him up and put him in his wheelchair.
Steve WellingsGUEST
And he got into that early kind of adolescent life where he was getting big and I had to do all of the manual stuff.
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Steve WellingsGUEST
We would go out to Navita with half a dozen families and I'd meet up with the other mums and we'd put our kids on the ground and we'd sing, you know, come with us and gallop.
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Steve WellingsGUEST
When we first – because he was a growing boy and all parents with kids, HIE slash CP kids will experience this – The medication's never right.
Steve WellingsGUEST
So it's going to be the right, either the right, or the wrong level of volume or intensity because there's different intensities of drugs too.
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Steve WellingsGUEST
I always thought that I'd be just like my siblings, that I would just, you know, have a job, working class job.
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