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May 19, 2019

Carpe Diem-Seize The Day

The taps were running, there was food in the oven and on the stove, my thirteen-year-old in one ear, two-year-old son hanging onto my legs and commanding my attention and the ten-year-old was shoving bits…

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Faith and Hope Food for thought Names Parenting Quotes

May 11, 2019

What’s In A Name?

Good morning and how is Jermiah today? He had only ever met us once before on the ward. I was at my local hospital in the queue waiting to exchange the Green tea I’d accidentally…

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Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

July 1, 2018

Life’s unpredictability

Sometimes in life we can be thrown by unpredictable situations. Your present reality, peace and routine become displaced and thrown into a dichotomy of what is verses what was. One thing I'll say is that…

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Trisomy 13 Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

April 28, 2018

Blind since birth but not without hope.

It's normally in my quiet moments, the shower, the rare bath or when it's just the two of us and the house is filled with the reassuring sound of Jermiah-Lee's heavy gurgled breathing that I…

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Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

February 15, 2018

God Hears…

I was angry with God when the screening test results came back as 'no clear response' from Jermiah-Lee Moses' hearing test. I was so distraught that I pleaded for it to be repeated, the second…

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January 23, 2018

Born without eyes, but born into love…my sons fight for life.

Never before has my faith been tested as it is at this time. It feels like a rubber band, stretched to capacity and it's about to start severing, breaking away until it finally gives way.…

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Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

October 17, 2017

I Just want my son to live- Trisomy 13

Is there ever a way to deal with difficult news? I know that things could be even worse but every time we have a scan I’m filled with intense emotions of pain and heartbreak. Having…

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Parenting Trisomy 13

May 11, 2019

Sanity, Gratitude and Disability.

I am a mother of six children aged between 25-years to 15-months. Two of my children are disabled one with mild autism and moderate learning difficulties. The other, severely disabled with a rare chromosome disorder;…

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Bilateral Anophthalmia Faith and Hope Trisomy 13 Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

November 2, 2018

Baby No Eyes Miracle

It was a daily thing for me, crying in my quiet moments of tranquillity, usually in the shower. I'd always pick myself back up again by recounting all the things that I'm thankful for. My…

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Acting Business Parenting

June 25, 2018

bad-mum holiday

Imagine being paid for time away in the Carribbean, receiving outstanding treatment, beautiful accommodation and picturesque scenery. Sounds too good to be true right? Especially for a very busy bad-mum of 6! During my pregnancy…

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Bilateral Anophthalmia Food for thought Parenting Trisomy 13 Uncategorized

June 18, 2018

I want to see you smile son

A smile communicates a thousand words, it sends a warm message to the stranger sitting next to you on the train, or to the cashier as you place the final item in your bag, make…

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Trisomy 13: My Most Personal Journey

April 24, 2018

I saved my sons life

Floods of tears strolled down my cheeks as we laughed uncontrollably during our family game of Monopoly. The Voice finals were on that evening which I desperately wanted to watch but giving my time to…

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Parenting

February 15, 2018

Washable nappies, seriously?

Admittedly I am a woman of convenience, pre-packaged ready to wash salad rather than chopping and arranging individual cucumbers and tomatoes. Aunt Bessie's roasted potatoes as opposed to peeling and chopping Maris pipers and most…