September is NICU awareness month, John Bell shares his experience of his son Thomas’s first few weeks. I’ll never forget the day Thomas was born, Our oldest son, Daniel, was 4 when we decided it was time to give him an sibling. Alison got pregnant fairly quickly and we had no reason to think there Read more about Our NICU experience – a dad’s story.[…]
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, today, Tiffanie Smith writes about her son Alfie’s treatment for leukaemia. This week Alfie went back to school with a spring in his step and a song on his lips… “Follow the yellow brick road!” to be exact as he has a fondness for Judy Garland of late. He’s Read more about This is what leukaemia looks like this week…[…]
September is NICU awareness month, today Emma Cater tells us about her daughter Ada-Grace, who spent 2 weeks in NICU after she was born. Beep…beep…beep You know, that probably doesn’t sound that menacing or a big deal to most. But if you’re a NICU mama, if you’ve had the experience of your precious bundle of Read more about Beep…beep…beep[…]
September is both sepsis awareness month and childhood cancer awareness month, today Donna Self tells us about her son Andrew, who developed sepsis whilst on chemotherapy for leukaemia. When Andrew was two years old he was diagnosed with a myelodysplastic syndrome which had the possibility to evolve into Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Unfortunately this is what Read more about Andrew[…]
This week on the blog, Caroline Gannon pays tribute to her brother, Johnny, who sadly passed away earlier this year due to Covid. Thank you so much to Caroline for sharing this with us. Johnny was born in 1966 to my 16 year old mum. She fell in love with him straight away and went Read more about My Brother, Johnny[…]
Congratulations to Oliver, who has recently become a big brother to baby George! Mum Corinne tells us how he’s taken to it. For 2 and a half years Oliver was our only child. When we found out we were pregnant with George I was scared of how Oliver would react to being a big brother, Read more about Becoming a big brother[…]