“In one dark moment, I wondered if my weeks of parental leave would amount to the entirety of my time with our son,' Buttigieg wrote in an emotional essay.
“By October, we had started to feel more confident and comfortable with all the routines of parenting,” Buttigieg wrote. “Then one day, the kids got a. Soon it was a cough. Then Penelope started to have trouble breathing. Over FaceTime, our doctor expressed concern about the way her belly was retracting under her ribs as she worked to take in air.” Penelope was admitted to the hospital first, but Gus was taken in soon after that when his skin took on a “mottled” look.
Buttigieg went on to describe a chilling thought he had during his son’s illness. “In one dark moment, I wondered if my weeks of parental leave would amount to the entirety of my time with our son, this beautiful infant whose face I had seen for the first time just weeks earlier and whose life had now come to matter to me as much as my own.”
Thankfully, Gus remained stable, and the twins recently celebrated their first birthday, enjoying cake “by the fistful” for the first time. As he reflected on this moment of joy, Buttigieg shared the gratitude he feels for the friends, family, and health care workers who stepped up to help him and his husband., and our village had been there for us,” he wrote.
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