Highly Sensitive Families

One of the blessings of my baby’s sensitivity was that it started to open us up to understanding our family as sensitive as a whole. I started learning about both my and my partner’s limitations based on our sensitivities, which were often ignored during our childhood. There’s good and bad to realizing this about ourselves. On the one hand, it makes us extra sympathetic to our little guy’s struggle… and on the other, it makes us triggered a lot more often.

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For Those Who Have a Highly Sensitive Baby...

When my son was two months old, we waited in one of our many doctor’s appointments, and I saw a poster that read: “1 in 5 babies are hard to soothe.” It was an advertisement for a support group. As I read it, I was bouncing him, shushing him, stroking his hair, all as he screamed. For the first six months of his life, he rarely stopped.

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