I live with PTSD from my own medical experience. It is hell. It happened to me as an adult and it was only one day in my life and I’m physically recovered and my baby is well - and I’m still struggling almost 5 years later.
So I cannot imagine for a moment what those parents have replaying in their mind every moment of every day. The images and the sounds and the events on a loop over and over. The dreams they have when they do manage sleep - which they probably avoid, for fear of not waking and being trapped in the worst of the nightmares.
The fact that these parents are still standing, let alone able to face this harrowing process, and now bravely sharing these hugely personal statements, shows the absolutely outstanding love and dedication they have to their precious children, and to getting justice for them.
These parents will no doubt say that they had no choice. That they did what anyone would.
But they deserve recognition, in my opinion, for the way they have fought and will continue to fight for their babies, for justice, and for the way they’ve done so. This process will not have been easy. It will have meant going over, and over, the worst moments. Having their worst moments made more real by being discussed over, and over.
These parents are so strong. Just like their babies.