Perfect "Children's Parents"

The author, the mother of hospitalized twin daughters, probably felt more comfortable in the hospital than most parents, due to her medical background. Members of the medical team told her they felt they could communicate more easily with her because she “got it.” While the author is grateful for the care and support that her family received, she thinks about other parents in the hospital who may have lacked her medical background, or whose child was not doing as well, or who couldn’t be at the child’s bedside every day. The author urges medical staff to consider, to a greater extent, their possible biases against parents who are not “perfect parents” or who don’t seem as able to “get it.”