Physiotherapy is one of those emotionally fraught issues for a parent. You know you are doing the right thing by giving your child extra help to reach their physical milestones, but at the same time you still feel fragile and vulnerable because your baby isn’t making progress like everyone else.
When it was first suggested Talia [...]

Last Wednesday we found out that i am pregnant with number 2! We had been trying for over 8 months and were very joyful but scared when we found out the news.
My son was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation due to PPROM & spontaneous labour. There was nothing that could be done to stop [...]

The bottom drawer of our freezer (we have an “upside-down” fridge) belongs to Talia. It’s full of plastic tubs containing ice-cube-sized portions of stewed fruit, mashed veg, pulverised chicken, flakes of fish in cheese sauce etc. Wedged in the middle of this oyster of solids was a little pearl – the last remaining bottle of [...]

I’ve been feeling anxious and emotional all day, and as the hours went by and it came closer to the anniversary of Talia’s birth the feeling just became stronger until here I am now, mid-evening, sitting on the sofa with a box of tissues and wiping away the tears.
This time last year I was in [...]

It has been announced that the next National Premmie Day is Friday 25th July 2008! This is very exciting news and this gives everyone plenty of time to organise their gorgeous premature babies and hold an event in their area.
National Premmie Day is a day to celebrate all of those amazing premature babies out there [...]

I remember when Ronan was in NICU and the music therapist came to see us. He was around 6 weeks old when she started chatting about music therapy and how it helps to settle premature babies in stressful situations. I listened to what she had to say but told her to come back as i [...]