She was told she couldn’t be a mom… Now her daughter works at NASA. 💔🚀
When Lena was born, the doctors weren’t just worried about her health.
They were worried about her mother’s.
Carla, a 22-year-old woman with Down syndrome, had insisted on raising her baby alone after Lena’s father left the moment he heard “positive.”
Social workers doubted her.
Neighbors whispered.
Even her own family said:
“You can’t do this.”
But Carla simply held her newborn tight and whispered:
“Watch me.”
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She didn’t have a college degree.
She didn’t drive.
But she woke up every two hours to feed Lena, learned lullabies from library CDs, and read bedtime stories with more heart than grammar.
She taped multiplication tables to the fridge.
She saved pennies for science kits.
And every time Lena asked where her dad was, Carla would smile and say:
“You don’t need a rocket to go far. You …
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