Recently, my husband and I became parents, and it\u2019s been awful. Our baby screams nonstop in his crib day and night. We\u2019ve tried doctors, specialists, formulas, meds, swaddles, white noise, and even a sleep consultant\u2014nothing helped. I\u2019m exhausted and broken, while my husband somehow always calms the baby after long hours.<\/p>\n
One day I found a folded medical report under the mattress\u2014my husband\u2019s, dated before our wedding. It showed he was a genetic carrier of a condition likely passed to our baby and that symptoms should be managed with a sedative starting postpartum. He knew, and our baby was in withdrawal. He wasn\u2019t comforting him\u2014he was dosing him and hiding the truth. My world collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"