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HERself

166. A Mom's Perspective When a Child Has Delays

HERself

Abby and Amy

Grow, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family, Opportunity, Honest, Real, Vulnerable, Purpose, Best Self, Self-improvement, Future, Comparison

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever had that feeling that your child is behind in something? This week the two of us sit down and share some insight on what has been going on in our lives when it comes to feeling like we are letting our children down.


Abby shares a personal story on the weight that can come with having a child with special needs. Amy gets vulnerable on what it felt like when she was told her kindergartener was behind in reading. Oftentimes, as women, we take the load of the heavy issues. Today we talk about what our village looks like and how we can lean on them through these tough times.


We know that in moments like this it can feel like you might want to throw in the towel. But remember, you are allowed to have these ups and downs. You’re allowed to have success and the hard days. We hope that you have a village of support where you feel like you can be honest about your relationships, parenting, and the things that are really, really tough.



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0:00.0

And then seeing that and seeing how hard, how hard of a day it was and thinking in my mind of

0:06.8

I'm not always available for him. I'm not always available for my two older kids.

0:12.2

Like, is this what's best for our family? But then we always have to understand also

0:17.8

what is best for us, like what is best for me? And I know that I'm the best mom to own.

0:23.2

I'm the best mom to all three of our kids because I get to have work that brings me purpose.

0:30.4

I'm Amy. And I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:39.4

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers. Being your best self means standing firm in your

0:44.9

decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. We get vulnerable and real. With an honest

0:51.2

look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening is the opportunity

0:56.8

to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:03.7

Today we thought we would share some behind the scenes things that have been going on in our

1:08.8

life because we're anticipating that in one way or another you can probably relate to a lot

1:15.0

of the things that we're going through. And the first thing that we wanted to talk about is the

1:21.2

experience of feeling like or being told that your child is behind in something. So we are

1:28.5

going to start with Abby's story. And this all stemmed because well our third, he was born

1:35.2

with Down syndrome. There is going to be delays throughout his life. And now it's just becoming more

1:39.6

apparent. We are having more therapy appointments. We're having more specialty appointments. We're

1:44.1

having more doctor appointments. And at every one of them we go in with this feeling of excitement

1:48.3

of learning something of being with our son, being with these amazing specialists which we feel

1:52.7

so lucky to be in Madison with these specialists. But then we leave with this heartbreaking feeling

1:58.1

of needing to do more. And there are so many moms listening right now where you have medically

2:03.4

complex kiddos or even just a well check where you go there and you just have all this information

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