We speak to parents daily who are here from another country and who are devastated every day by the International Border closures.

We wrote a letter to Federal MP Zali Steggal on behalf of our expat parenting community to open the conversation.

Below is our letter and her response.

Reframing it this way gives you a rationale and fuel for the struggle as it is an investment into your bond, why would you not want that.

And it will get better, the feeding, the sleeping, the cleaning, being together. You will get better and the baby will get better, you are learning and developing new skills together, 10,000 hours so the books tell me.

A beautiful Mum popped into the shop this week, we got chatting and she also has a 4 month old baby who had just had his vaccinations. I asked her how things we going and she revealed she was upset because she had just spoken to the GP about how she was feeling like maybe she didn’t have as much milk as once before and the baby was waking up a little more than usual.