Deep Dive with "Can Do Mom" Ariela

Deep Dive with “Can Do Mom“ Ariela

Kelly talks with Ariela, a mother of two in Massachusetts who was told by a doctor, just three days after giving birth, that her newborn son was slowly dying. He was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disorder, rushed to Children's Hospital, and spent 22 days in intensive care. It was a crisis that reshaped her family's finances, her older son's sense of normal — and one she is still navigating every day. They get into why the oxygen-mask metaphor falls apart the moment you're actually living it, and how Ariela is slowly learning to give herself the same grace she gives everyone else.

This episode was made possible by the Monarch Foundation.