A watered-down tiger mom of 3 cubs with special needs from Connecticut USA!
6 years ago around this time, we had scheduled her C-section to be on January 31st, since it happened to fall on Chinese New Year in 2014. She was going to be a horse 🐎 in the Chinese zodiac. In true Quinn fashion, she came when she was ready–one day earlier. We joked that she really didn’t want to be a horse. Instead, she wanted the snake 🐍 year. And she’s been calling the shots ever since.
Continue reading “Quinn’s birth story”
After 4+ years of managing Quinn’s medications, we’ve got a system that has worked well for our family. In the early years, Quinn’s seizure medication would change every other week so we were constantly titrating (building up or weaning down) medication. We must have went through five different medications the first year. It was a rollercoaster journey because we would slowly build up the medication only to discover a bad side effect and have to slowly bring down the medication. Seizure medication needs to be slowly weaned from the system or it could result with more seizures. On top of that, most of time the medication did very little, if nothing, to control her seizures.
Our system is not perfect and it is constantly evolving as we discover new products or tricks. Hopefully, this will inspire you to develop a system that works for your family.
Continue reading “Prepping meds”
For the first year of Quinn’s life, everything felt more than perfect. We looked like we were rocking life and living the dream. I got a promotion at work. Mike’s start up company was doing well. Ty was rocking Montessori school. Quinn was such a sweet and chill baby. We looked as if life couldn’t get any better.
Continue reading “When everything changed…”Ok I guess I’m really doing this! 😬So here goes!
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