On Wednesday a coworker notified the staff that she’s pregnant. I was so happy for her and yet it got me to thinking about how horrifying the shock of pregnancy could be.<\/p>\n
It got me thinking about how much of a joy, but how unplanned fears of the unfamiliar can help determine a mother’s tolerance<\/span> for “morning sickness” or all of the other pains and scares of pregnancy.<\/p>\n And then I wondered about my clients.<\/p>\n I wonder how many of them came as a surprise to their mothers. And especially in the “little kid’s” room across the hall, I wonder how it must have felt to see “the baby” not being able to grow out of that stage. I wonder what it felt like the first time a mother realised that “the baby” wasn’t like other babies.<\/p>\n A lot of our clients’ parents come in with frustrations. “He doesn’t act right.” “He can’t behave.” And a lot of parents of these kids want us to fix this kid.<\/p>\n But some parents are just flat out overwhelmed with the plight that has been handed them, or the plight that they have chosen. It’s so easy to make a naive decision. And not all things come out just like they’re planned, no matter how well thought out. Experience shapes us.<\/p>\n And then to think that some of the beginnings of the stressors<\/span> of these parents’ lives began with a plus sign that could never be erased.<\/p>\n It just makes me think that not every story is written in the ideal… but with a little encouragement and supports, the story does not have to end like it began…<\/p>\n unplanned.<\/p>\n … I was just thinking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday a coworker notified the staff that she’s pregnant. I was so happy for her and yet it got me to thinking about how horrifying the shock of pregnancy could be. It got me thinking about how much of a joy, but how unplanned fears of the unfamiliar can help determine a mother’s tolerance… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And the more that I’m an “adult” I realise how much “we adults” don’t know. It’s not like you’re handed this manual or all of a sudden after college answers to hard like situations pop into your head.<\/p>\n