One thing I’ve come to realize is what makes a “happy ending” (in real life) is that it’s really just a beginning.

So when I hand over my son's tiny frail dying body, know that I trust you.

Parenting a child with a disability like Down syndrome requires courage, patience and love in what can sometimes seem an impossible battle. But it is a battle that can be made considerably easier to fight if you remember that you are not alone.

The other hard part? Thinking it’s all “normal” and that we must be bad parents for not being able to get it under control.

As parents, one of the more primal responsibilities we have is to feed our children. To be seen as deficient in that arena is to call into question our basic success in caring for them.