To the mama who is on a parenting journey that is much more difficult than most, this is for you.
To the mama who crawls in to bed at night aching from head to toe from the constant lifting, carrying, and re-positioning of her child who is unable to move themself and the lugging around of equipment that you have been doing all day, this is for you.
To the mama who sheds a tear behind her sunglasses at the park when she sees other kids running and jumping around knowing that hers may never get to do that.
To the mama who is not only a parent, but a physical and occupational therapist, speech therapist, honorary nurse, and professional crisis manager, this is for you.
To the mama who feels so isolated because she doesn’t have time to go out with friends anymore, this is for you.
To the mama who can’t leave the house without oxygen, feeding pumps, barf bags, medicines, and pulse/ox machines, this is for you.
To the mama who feels like she is drowning in a sea of doctors appointments, therapies, and blood draws week after week, this is for you.
To the mama who stays up late nights even though she is exhausted doing research and finding the best doctors and treatments for her medically fragile child, this is for you.
To the mama who gets woken up 5 times a night to the sound of different machines in her child’s room alarming, this is for you.
To the mama who is doing EVERYTHING, but also feels like she is never doing enough for her children, this is for you.
To the mama who feels like she spends more nights on a pull out bed at children’s hospital than she does in her own room, this is for you.
To the mama who is uncertain about the future of her children’s health, this is for you.
To the mama who is so utterly emotionally and physically exhausted but gets up each and every day ready to take on the world all over again, this is for you.
To the mama who continues to have hope, this is for you.
To the mama who will NEVER give up on her children, this is for you.
I know this is not the parenting journey you had imagined yourself on when you chose to start a family but it is the one you were born to do. Happy Mother’s Day. Today I celebrate YOU, mama.❤️💪
