To all the parents that walk a different path – Welcome!

If you’re reading this, chances are you know the feeling. To love a child whose needs don’t fit neatly into any box. Specifically, doctors’ offices, evaluations, therapies, meetings, meltdowns, triumphs, setbacks, and a kind of courage you never knew you had until you needed it. 

I’m Amber — I’m just your average mom, a certified medical assistant, and a woman who has learned motherhood through a lens that not everyone will understand. My children needed more support, and it required stepping into a world I never expected to navigate… and one that often felt isolating, overwhelming, and impossibly heavy.

However, it also taught me something no parenting book ever could:
There is a strength inside us that grows in the dark.

Parenting a child with special needs changes you.
It grows your patience.
It softens your heart.
It sharpens your instincts.
It adds layers of worry no one sees.
And it fills your life with victories only you and your child will ever truly understand.

For years, I felt like I was holding my breath — trying to keep up with appointments, juggling the needs of our family from a hospital room, managing the emotional weight, and trying to keep myself from being a complete train wreck of nerves and emotions as I continued to keep up with the world spinning as my world was at a halt.

That’s why I created MommaMattersToo.

Because moms like us give everything — time, energy, emotions, patience — until there’s nothing left for ourselves. I want to share my experience and give hope to families around the world. Even when you feel like you have lost your identity because your identity is consumed by kid’s arguing, endless tasks, and PTO meetings. There are ways to fulfill your needs in the midst of madness.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the diagnosis, the therapy, or the challenges…

It’s feeling like you have to be strong every second of every day.

I will be returning with a two part post that will discuss personal experiences with our children’s medical history and the relentless journey our family endured to finally be in a space that we can finally inhale a deep sigh of relief. By sharing our story, I am hoping other families that are walking a similar path can find solace in knowing that they are not alone.