Especially Organized: Sensible Solutions for Special Needs Moms

7 | Managing Multiples with Jane Martin


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7 | Managing Multiples with Jane Martin: Multiple Diagnoses, Multiple Babies, Multiple everything!

My dear friend and mentor, Jane, grew up in Richardson, Texas. She started ballet lessons at age 9 and by the age of 12, was dancing 4 days a week with a pre-professional company in Dallas. As a senior at Bishop Lynch High School, Jane was offered a contract to dance full time with the Hartford Ballet Company in Connecticut. After graduation, she moved to Connecticut and spent the next 11 years touring the United States dancing in every state except Alaska. In 1988, while touring through China, she injured herself, returned home and started physical therapy where her treating therapist soon became her husband. They moved back to Dallas, she retired from dancing and began teaching ballet in Plano. In 1993, her twins were born. Andrew was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after his birth. He also has been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Jane has been actively involved in the Down Syndrome Guild of Dallas since their early years. After Andrew began attending Notre Dame School, she poured her energy into volunteering at the school, serving on the Board of Directors, as parent chair of the annual Affair of The Heart in 2020, and in other many valuable ways.


Jane is a mentor and welcomed asset to the Down Syndrome community and I am grateful to her for sharing her story. She is one of the most organized people I know! She shares all the ways she has kept herself and her family organized related to Andrew's many health issues, including all the copious information required to manage a T1 Diabetes diagnosis. We also have a real heart-to-heart about NOT being empty nesters!


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