Chasten Buttigieg Slams Mike Pence For Maternity Leave Joke

In August 2022, Buttigieg revealed An average post That the twins were born prematurely and had to spend two weeks in the hospital before they could go home. But a child also developed a serious reflux, and both were finally diagnosed with The RSV respiratory viruswhich required that one spent another long and terrifying period in a hospital.

“For us, it just meant a bad cold, but for premature infants like them, it was a serious threat,” wrote Buttigieg.

“Parenting is a lot of things, and one of these things is terror. You monitor your baby, under sedation and surrounded by sons and tubes and monitors and medical staff who come and come constantly, and you ask how we could live in a universe where a few weeks could be everything that a child happens on this earth,” he wrote.

Lis Smith, who worked on the failed presidential campaign of Buttigieg, said that the comments of Pence at the Gridiron dinner showed that he was “an unambiguous asshole”.