Maternity Rolls: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Disability, which is due to be published on June 4, recounts her experiences as a paraplegic and mother of two.

Kuttai was paralysed at the age of six following a car accident.

"It wasn't really expected that I would ever finish high school or go to university," she said.

"It wasn't expected that I would do any sports.

"Or find love or find a job.

"Or have babies."

Kuttai credits sport with having helped give her life purpose.

Her father, George, was national and provincial competitor, began taking her to target shooting competitions at age 15.

By 1988, she was competing at the Paralympics in Seoul, where she earned two silver medals in target shooting, followed by a bronze medal at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.

"Sport transformed my life," Kuttai said.

"It changed everything.

"It changed the way I saw wheelchairs.

"It changed the way I saw my body.

"It gave me imagination."

She credits her father for getting her involved in wheelchair sports, even though he did not initially want to pull her out of the non-disabled competitions.

"He was kind of resentful in a way," said Kuttai.

"But, on the other hand, he knew there would be better coaching opportunities for me and lots more travel and I think he knew that I would find a community there.

"Up until that time, I didn't know anybody."

Building on her Paralympic success, Kuttai went on to become an advocate for disabled people, establishing the Disability Services for Students resource at the University of Saskatchewan before earning her master's degree.

Her new book is meant to be a source of strength for disabled women looking to have a child.

"When I was pregnant with my kids it sure would have been nice to have something like this," said Kuttai.

"There really isn't anything out there on this subject matter."

Maternity Rolls is a combination of memoir and academic paper.

Spawned from her 2009 master's dissertation in kinesiology, the book provides a reflection of Kuttai's experiences, from the car accident, to a critical assessment of the medical system through the eyes of a disabled woman, from rehabilitation to the pre- and post-natal care of her two children, Patrick, 13, and Chelsea, 4.

"I hope it changes the way we perceive what is a healthy and competent body; what is a body worth living in," said Kuttai.

"My body drastically changed, but the expectations that people had of me changed more.

"There is a historical assumption that people with disabilities won't live the same quality of life as everybody else will and there is an assumption that when you have a physical disability that you're not a sexual person.

"So I grew up without that strong sense of sexual identity that my peers had.

"And so, when I found out that I was pregnant, there was no denying that I was a female.

"No one could deny it, not even me."

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