Forewarned is forearmed Well folks, September is Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) awareness month and though I have left it to the usual 11th hour, I felt unusually compelled to share a little of my own experience on the subject. Forgive my ramblings but please do remember that this is just as it says on […]
Dearest Lily, I know that your Mummy has been reading some of my very old letters to you (some of them are almost 100 years old!), so I thought that, as you are almost 6 now and because your reading has come on so wonderfully this year, it was about time I started writing to […]
Tuesday 17th November 2015 So, to state the glaringly obvious, I have not posted for quite some time… As is inevitable, life has a habit of taking over, but on this World Prematurity Day I felt compelled to share some thoughts; this is a day when my mind is naturally inclined to reflect on our […]
…make lemonade….or so the saying goes – but after a long week it sometimes feels like sugar might be on ration. I don’t want this post to be completely doom and gloom – it’s not one particular thing that has made this week a lemon but I thought it worth while to sometimes document […]
Having a C-section, albeit fairly dramatic, was nowhere near as bad as I imagined it would be….if anything, I think I got off lightly. It seems that emergency sections are most definitely a spectator sport! We counted there to be about fifteen people in the room when I gave birth. I can only recall four […]
