“She’s going to make a bit of a splash”
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“The strands you spin stretch out way beyond your field of vision"
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This is a quality Kevin and I love. And one it struck me to write about because we have been surrounded by it by friends, family and medical professionals since Coraline was born. This simple act brings so much into your orbit.
Dear Mom,
I love you! That's all you need to know, and all you need to know you will know!
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Isn’t it wonderful that one of the most oft said things people have said to me since Coraline was born is, “trust your instincts”.
“You might want to keep one day free where you have no healthcare appointments at all,”said the lady who came over for our initial visit from Portage when Coraline was a few months old.
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A new lady who babysits Coraline made me think about our antenatal group this week. I had said to her, “I love my Antenatal group because with them I feel like I am just one of the gang,” and she replied, “you are just one of the gang”. Her words actually really made me stop and think and reposition my own thinking.
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Coraline and I go everywhere in the sling.
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We would love it if you wear colourful odd socks on Wednesday 21 March. The idea is that then people ask you why you are wearing odd socks and you can help raise awareness and tell them about World Down Syndrome Day.
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The incredible thing about Coraline is that I am learning so much about life through her.
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I was having dinner with a friend this week. She was saying that it’s very hard not to compare how your baby is doing, based on when other babies do things. I felt wholehearted in my reply when I said it doesn’t even cross my mind.
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“I feel privileged to have met you as your experience has reminded me to watch out for judgmental moments.“
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Meeting him in our first week in hospital had the biggest impact on me due to his relaxedness, wisdom and positivity, which he simply exudes with his presence
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I am sharing my tips for expressing milk. I expressed breastmilk with a double electric breast pump for Coraline, our baby with Down’s syndrome, for seven months.
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I do believe that the way you express yourself creates your experience, which is why our posts are positive. It is also how I feel.
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These are the values which underpin all our blog posts.
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Margaret loved Coraline from the moment she met her. Watching them together is like mutual love.
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It stems back to the day Coraline was born and I still see flashbacks to that first week in hospital and to the time we were told, within an hour of Coraline’s birth, that she had Down’s Syndrome.
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Throughout the year of 2017 that I was pregnant we wrote to our future baby in a diary I had called “Every Day Matters 2017” in advance of the August due date. We told her what we were up to, recorded how I felt in pregnancy and what we were thinking.
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