Today is my 33rd birthday; another full trip around the sun. This past year has been the most lift-changing and pivotal year of my entire life. I was tested in ways I never thought I’d be able to get through. It’s pretty incredible the amount of things that…
My son has only been implanted and activated for a short period of time, but I feel like I’ve been thrown head first into this emotional roller-coaster of being a mother of a child with a cochlear implant. Let me clarify something first before all the mom shamers…
The thought of putting my 1 year old through a 6-8 hour surgery is enough to make any parent panic. My husband and I have thought long and hard about his cochlear implant surgery, and although it terrifies us, we know that it is in his best interest….
I cannot even put into words the amount of emotions associated with raising a deaf child. There is fear, there is hope, there is grief, there is sadness, there is joy and there is so much unknowns. If you have been following Beckett’s Journey to Hearing, you already…