We've Got This by Eliza Hull, Cathy Reay, Christa Couture, Daniela Izzie, Debra Keenahan, Donna Thornton, Elly May Barnes, Estefani Arevalo, Garry Lynch, Graeme Innes, Jacinta Parsons, Jaclyn Lynch, James Catchpole, Jasper Peach, Jax Jacki Brown, Jessica Smith, Joanne Limburg, Kristen Witucki, Kristy Forbes, Marjorie Amos, Micheline Lee, Neangok Chair, Nicole Lee, Oscar Arevalo, Renay Barker-Mulholland, Ricardo Thornton, Sam Drummond, Shakira Hussein
Published by Scribe UK
Age Group: Adult
Format: Non-Fiction
Genres and Categories: Disabled and Neurodivergent Authors, LGBTQIA+ Authors, OwnVoices Representation, Chronic Illness, Hearing impairment, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Medical Scenes, Mental Health, Mobility Aids, Neurodivergent, Physical Disabilities, Trauma, Vision impairment, Eugenics, Disabled and Neurodivergent Information, Diversity
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Published on: 18th December 2025
Pages: 269
Disability Representation: Above the Knee Amputee, Achondroplasia, ADHD, Amputee, Anxiety, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Blind, Brain Tumour, Cancer, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Health Condition, Chronic illness, Chronic Pain, Crohn's Disease, Deaf, Deaf Community, Disability Awareness, Disability Biographies, Dwarfism, Epilepsy, Eugenics, Ewing's Sarcoma, Fibromyalgia, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Infertility, Intellectual Disabilities, Invisible Disabilities, Keratoconus, Mental Health, Missing Limb, Mobility aid, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Neurodivergent, Paralysed, Paralysed in an accident, Physical Disability, Polio, Prosthetic Legs, Quad Amputee, Quadriplegic, Seizure, Sepsis, Single-leg Amputee, Spina Bifida, Spinal-Cord Injury, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Survivor, Wheelchair User
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How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most parents-to-be she was a mix of excited and nervous. But as a person with a disability, there were added complexities. She wondered: Will the pregnancy be too hard? Will people judge me? Will I cope with the demands of parenting? More than 15 percent of Australian households have a parent with a disability, yet their stories are rarely shared, their experiences almost never reflected in parenting literature. In We've Got This, 25 parents who identify as deaf, disabled or chronically ill discuss the highs and lows of their parenting journeys and reveal that the greatest obstacles lie in other people's attitudes. The result is a moving, revelatory and empowering anthology. As Rebekah Taussig writes, 'Parenthood can tangle with grief and loss. Disability can include joy and abundance. And goddammit - disabled parents exist.'

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I’ve been looking forward to reading We’ve Got This since I first heard about it, and I was pleased to get hold of a copy to review for GeekDis. GeekDis is a month-long event discussing disabled and neurodivergent representation, and We’ve Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents fits in perfectly. Keep reading for my full review.

We’ve Got This is a much-needed selection of essays from disabled parents about parenting as disabled people. This was a book that was very relevant to me as someone who is one part of a disabled couple. As many of the authors mention, there is hardly any information out there about disabled parenting, and the information you do come across is filled with the attitude that disabled parents either can’t parent for various reasons, or they shouldn’t become parents because they are passing on their hereditary conditions. These ableist and eugenicist beliefs are not only ignorant, but they’re spreading misinformation and have an extremely harmful effect on disabled people.

The essays in We’ve Got This are from disabled parents from a wide array of backgrounds and situations. It is wonderfully intersectional and includes many different disabilities, which I especially appreciated. I often find collections like this fail to comprehend just how diverse the disabled community is. That wasn’t the case here, and Eliza Hull has done a fantastic job of curating this book. The essays themselves are brilliant, written from the heart and are very informative.

My one complaint is that I feel that the book would have benefited from content warnings at the start of each essay, as some of them talk about some very difficult topics, and they appear without warning at times, which I found quite uncomfortable. By that, I’m referring to my own personal triggers because We’ve Got This does talk about a lot of uncomfortable situations, and rightly so. I thought I was aware of some of the traumatic situations that disabled people dealt with regarding pregnancy; however, I now realise I was only just scratching the surface.

Despite being difficult to read at times, We’ve Got This is a book that I’m going to be recommending to everyone, disabled and non-disabled people. I was asked by someone about how relevant this book is to people who aren’t parents or thinking about starting a family, and I personally think this book is relevant to everyone. As mentioned at the start of this review, disabled parenting is an area that is extremely scrutinised by so many people, many of whom have never actually bothered to take the time to speak to or spend time with a disabled parent.

Parenting is terrifying for anyone, and being disabled adds so much more pressure because of the social and medical models of disability. The wealth of experiences, knowledge and sense of community that We’ve Got This offers is invaluable, offering advice and support for disabled people while shedding light on the ableist and eugenicist attitudes of medical, social and educational professionals.

My personal favourite essays were by Nina Tame, who is always a joy to read, Lucy and James Catchpole, who are both disabled but have different disabilities, and they talk about how that affected the way they were perceived as parents, and Jasper Peach, who has chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, talking about parenting with those conditions. Those three resonated with me personally in some way, but I gained something from every single one. This is a brilliant book that will be hard to read, but it’s a necessary read.

Thank you for reading my review for We’ve Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents! This review was part of the GeekDis event, which you can follow on social media using the #GeekDis. You can also view all this year’s content at the GeekDis 2023 content hub!

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