Reading the digital newsletter, 40 Days Postpartum + by Dee Marco, I was reminded of a quote on mothering that resonated with me. In Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie The Lost Daughter, the character Leda Caruso describes motherhood as “a crushing responsibility” and I have to agree that it often feels this way when you have a child with an allergy.
Our almost three-year-old daughter has a severe dairy and peanut allergy, though not anaphylactic, at least. Since finding this out a few weeks post birth, the constant levels of alertness have at times felt crushing. As a result, I've had to give up dairy and have migrated to being an oat milk coffee and tea drinker. Reading labels just wasn't my thing
