Jennifer Chamberlain

Mother of a child with CF

Jennifer is a mother of two, wife, education law attorney and Pilates teacher-in-training. When not caring for her children, Connor and Claire, who has cystic fibrosis, she can be found at the beach, sneaking in reality TV, or planning her next trip. She is an active member of the Orange County chapter of the CF Foundation and serves as a committee member for the Klassic gala. You can find her blog at theCandCdiaries.com and on Instagram.

Blog Posts

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Because my daughter's bowel perforated when she was a newborn, she needed to have surgery to temporarily reroute her stool so that it was collected through her abdomen into an ostomy bag. Those grueling days of ostomy care -- sometimes as often as every hour day and night -- were some of the darkest days of our cystic fibrosis journey.

Jul. 7, 2021 | 6 min read