As parents our lives do not belong to just us. You now have to factor in your child. I see a lot of blogs and articles that usually say one of two things. 1) You should not let a child change your life because you have a child. 2) Your life is about your child.
To me it should be a balance. Honestly when your child an infant I feel your life should revolve around it. Your baby is dependent on you for its very survival. They need you to feed them, be it breast or bottle. They need you to keep them warm. To change their diapers. To just hold them because their world has been turned upside down, they are now in ours. I love the fourth trimester as its called because it's so true a baby is slowly gaining it footing in our world.
In an ideal world as your child grows and develops you can let go a little. You can relax and find fun things to do with them. You can drop them off to play with friends and family. They will go to school and come home with stories about thier day. You can go out with piece of mind that everything will be okay.
When you have a special needs child it's not so simple. Each special needs child is so different, so unique that no families journey is the same. Once in awhile the path may be the same or close but the whole of it is different. Your life revolves around doctors appointments, specialists appointments, never ending therapy appointments and the dreaded blood work. Our journey is still fairly new so I'm sure a better balance will be found.
Till than my life revolves around my kids and it may be slightly hectic definitely tiring. In the end I have them so it is so worth it.
