Brave together: Some parenting is harder than others

by Rachel ReevesJessica Patay can easily return, in her mind, to the night in the summer of 2003 when a doctor called with her newborn son Ryan’s diagnosis. She and her husband, Chris, had returned to their Rancho Palos Verdes home a week earlier. They’d been in the hospital for a month, as doctors ran tests to understand why Ryan wasn’t crying or waking up to eat.Though they still had no answers, they decided it was time to return to their two-year-old son, Luke, whom the