A quadriplegic mother on raising twins: 'Having a disability is not the end of the world'

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A quadriplegic mother on raising twins: 'Having a disability is not the end of the world'
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In 2009, Dani Izzie slipped on a bathroom floor and snapped her neck, paralyzing nearly every part of her body from the chest down — but that didn't stop her from becoming a mom.

Dani Izzie and her husband, Rudy, insist there's nothing really extraordinary about how they're raising their twin girls, Lavinia and Giorgiana, in rural Virginia. Double the fun always means double the chaos.

Dani had always been easygoing and outgoing. She grew up outside Washington, D.C., and went to college abroad in Rome. Adventure, it seems, was in her bones. But in 2009, when she was 23, she slipped on a bathroom floor and snapped her neck, paralyzing almost everything from her chest down.She said the first two years coping were the hardest, both physically and psychologically:"When you're always thinking of how you're gonna walk again, you're living your life waiting.

Soon after their wedding, they sought out an OB-GYN, who confirmed what Dani already knew: her paralysis did not preclude her ability to have children. She got pregnant right away. Filming was awkward, at first, but as Dani became more confident on-camera, she became more confident about her message, too. In the film she notes,"Society doesn't think we're capable of being good parents. It's prejudice, pure and simple."

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