by Jolene | Jan 31, 2013 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
An EA/TEF Top Ten List: 30 Years Later EA/TEF Awareness Month 2013 ends today. Thirty years ago, our baby boy, born with EA/TEF was about eight months old, slowly gaining ground in his fight to stay alive. In yesterday’s post Christine Lester highlighted ten...
by Christine Lester | Jan 30, 2013 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
EA/TEF Awareness Month: You Might Be an EA/TEF Parent If… EA/TEF Awareness Month is almost over, but it can’t pass without a word from Christine Lester, a Different Dream blogger whose son Billy was born with EA/TEF. Christine’s a little...
by Jolene | Jan 24, 2013 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Alphabet Soup Is Hard to Swallow EA/TEF Makes Everything Hard to Swallow Alphabet soup isn’t hard to swallow. Not for most people anyway. But when a pediatrician says your newborn baby has esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF), the diagnosis...
by Jolene | May 24, 2012 | Different Dream Series, Products
Today, May 24, is the 30th anniversary of our son’s admission to neonatal intensive care (NICU). He spent two and a half weeks recovering from a EA/TEF repair while we adjusted to a different parenting dream than we imagined when we learned we were pregnant. It...
by Christine Lester | Jan 31, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Hello, friends! Are you checking in to read the second half of guest blogger, Christine Lester’s post about why she almost missed EA TEF Awareness Month? At the end of yesterday’s post, Christine had her fingers in her ears and was singing “La La La,...
