Advocacy, Instinct, and Finding Your Voice in Medical Spaces After sitting and waiting for others to tell us what was happening with Baby L, I was more than ready to jump in and become the mom she needed. During the week I wasn’t able to hold her after her tracheostomy and gastrointestinal tube’s were placed,…
Support, Grace and Showing Up When a Child is Medically Complex They say it takes a village to raise a child. When you have “typical” child, you can often get by with a very small village. But when you receive the news that your child will be medically complex, you feel deeply alone. What you…
Stepping Out of Survival and Into Something Softer There was a time when everything in my life felt divided into before and after. The beginning, the change, and the unraveling that followed. Somewhere along the way, though, I realized I don’t live in those moments anymore. I live in the now-a place shaped by what…
The Deep Water Mother 