by Jolene | Jan 24, 2019 | Encouragement
What it is like to parent a child born with EA/TEF is unimaginable to most people. As part of Different Dream’s annual observance of EA/TEF Awareness Month, guest blogger Danielle Drummond tells what the experience has been like for her family. What It Is Like...
by Jolene | Jan 23, 2019 | Encouragement
My best advice for new parents of EA/TEF babies has had plenty of time to percolate. It’s been brewing since 1982 when our first child received his diagnosis 12 hours after his birth. Until our son’s health stabilized, my husband and I longed to meet other...
by Jen Cheney | Jan 17, 2019 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting
An esophageal atresia story was not when Jen Cheney and her husband Will expected when they learned they would soon be a family of 3. For EA/TEF Awareness Month, 2019 Jen shares about what life has been like for them since the birth of Jack in May of 2018. Hang on for...
by Stephanie McKeever | Nov 7, 2018 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Join the Different Dream gang as we welcome new guest blogger, Stephanie McKeever today. She confesses she is often worried and more than worried about IEP meetings as a special needs mom. What she has to say may sound familiar to you, too. More Than Worried Have you...
by Jolene | Oct 22, 2018 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
What’s a person to do when the caregiving hits keep coming? Though I have decades of caregiving experience under my belt, I had to think hard to answer the question after my husband Hiram had hip replacement surgery in September of 2018. The surgery was...
by Jolene | Oct 18, 2018 | Books and Resources, Spiritual Support
In this post, guest blogger Rachel Olstad introduces readers to the members of The Dads Band and describes their exciting new CD, The Waiting Room. Be sure to read to the very end to learn how you can enter a drawing, in which one lucky person win a copy of their CD....
