by Jolene | Jan 3, 2014 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
EA/TEF Awareness Month, 2014 January. A month for blustery weather, New Year’s resolutions (watch for our guest blogger resolution series beginning on Monday, January 6), and EA/TEF Awareness Month. Different Dream is all about raising awareness about EA/TEF...
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...