Hey there! I’ve been in your shoes — that is, thinking about how to have children, and whether or not we should. My husband, Michael, has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, and we have two kids.
I have CFS, which was mild before having kids, and is more moderate after going through two challenging pregnancies. We’re exhausted.
We won’t be having any more children, largely because of our health. But we’re also really, really happy. Our little ones are affectionate and funny and love to get our attention…sometimes by jumping on our faces, other times by asking us to play the xylophone with them, or making us goldfish and freeze-dried strawberry “soup” in a saucepan, and a million other sweet and hilarious and endearing things.
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