


Pregnancy & Parenting – expectations vs reality
June is the month of my boy’s birth. As I write this blog, I was 28 weeks pregnant 13 years ago, looking like a weeble and peeing roughly every 45 seconds! (only a slight exaggeration) *Note, I have NO photgraphs of me when I was pregnant as they were all on my...
What face equality means when your twin has a facial disfigurement.
23rd May 2018 is Face Equality Day organised and championed by the fantastic Changing Faces charity. I wondered for a while what I could write that would do the day justice. Should I explain my sadness when others stare or grimace at Harry who looks so different to...
7 reasons why it’s okay not to be okay as a parent
I had a bad day as a mother recently. Well, technically it was a bad ten minutes but the aftermath of emotion and exhaustion stayed with me for most of the day. I took to my Facebook page to share the reality of parenting on a live broadcast in the hope that other...
Blood is thicker than water – true or false?
There’s a saying that ‘blood is thicker than water’ which means that family bonds are supposedly stronger than those of friends and I’ve been giving this some thought lately. A while a go I wrote a blog called ‘3 reasons why I can’t die’ which explains my emotional...
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