My journey with Down syndrome has been one of beauty, acceptance, knowing, a small amount of sadness, and wonder, filled with a joy and love that is more precious than words can say. This is accompanied by a deep knowing that this is who Taya is meant to be. She is the gift that none of us knew that we needed. Her T21 birth did not come with surprise, despite not knowing prior, but with a knowing for my daughter and myself that we would be gifted with her. Deep down, we had b

My memories of what I went through 26 years ago giving birth to my lovely, adorable son Dylan.  He was born on due date, 15 hours of labour nature birth. The only medical issue at birth was he was jaundice and put under lights for the first few hours after birth. At a later stage we found he had a hole in his heart that closed over six months later, two lots of pneumonia and three lots of grommets. As I couldn’t breast feed Dylan, he was bottled fed, so we were allowed to go

You didn’t just survive. You transformed. I’m so incredibly proud of who we turn out to be.

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Musa He was born on 14 April 2017 via emergency c section when the doctors struggled to find his heartbeat. Shortly after birth the...

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Dear Anna (9), Macy (7) and Kira (5), When we received Owen’s diagnosis at four days old, our immediate thoughts were of you, his...

Dear New Mumma, Earlier that day, you were elated at seeing your beautiful baby during your 20 week ultrasound, he was the most gorgeous...