Deaf and Crunchy Diaries — parenting a deaf child RSS

After six hours, the call came: Bode was out of surgery and just waking up! My husband and I rushed to see him, with my mom holding down the fort in the cafeteria. I was nervous about holding him, worried I might accidentally hurt his head. 

I called my mom to tell her the news [our baby boy was deaf]. It felt like our world had shifted on its axis. I didn’t have words to explain it to friends who texted, checking in. We were in mourning—not for our son, who was perfect, but for the future we had imagined.