Disabled mothers face many barriers to their parenting.These include lack of access to affordable and accessible housing and transportation; supports and services that will enable women to maintain custody and access to her children; adaptive equipment to support the unique needs of her family; and entry into shelters when they are fleeing violence. Unortunately when a disabled mom reaches our for help it is seen as though she is failing in one way or another especially to that mom. Our children are our lives and its very hard to ask for help but we do it because we know its a necessary task that needs to be done in order to do the absolute best for our children.The difficulty for many mothers is in how to negotiate the process while maintaining dignity and custody of children. Often those who can grant access to services do not consider that with supports in place, a disabled woman can parent her children and manage her household and instead choose to place custody of children into able-bodied partners, even those with a history of abuse and violence, over the mother. What is required is to assess the situation and take each issue individually and search for the answer beginning with the  home environment based a each persons individual requirements. For a mom in a wheelchair there are lower cribs, long light switches a wide variety of lifts ceiling as well. There are catalogues full of bathing equipment down to long handled toenail clippers all that is needed  is to find what works for each situation. The most helpful and important thing is to establish friends and family as your support system. In my case its friends and even people i know. Ask the school too they can be a very helpful resource such as hooking you up with other parents who can help. My sons school helped me find a parent to take my son to school in the winter months.