I was on bedrest for 10 weeks when I was pregnant with my twins. We had to put my 2 year old son in daycare because I couldn’t take care of him. However, since I was a stay-at-home mom, we couldn’t write off the daycare expense. We called the IRS to see if there was an exception for when the mom had a disability, but no there were no exceptions.
There absolutely should be exceptions for cases such as yours.