There was a time period after my daughter was born when I felt the isolation that comes from parenting a child with health conditions.
That comes from having a kid that is more complex than others. It was a time when I watched other parents happily breastfeeding, formula feeding, or just successfully feeding in general while I stood in the distance just trying to keep my child alive.
People joke about keeping their kids alive, but for a parent with a medically complex child, it’s not a joke. It’s life. There is often a divide between parents of healthy children and parents of children with health concerns.
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