I pondered how when you’re pregnant you have a sense of how you feel, and you wonder who your baby is going to be. Then once you’ve met them, that’s it, that’s them. But it’s funny, during pregnancy you can only imagine them.
Coraline is nineteen months old. Babies with Down’s Syndrome expect to get teeth through between the ages of one to two years old. For typical babies it’s from six months old and usually in a certain order (generally bottom central incisors first).
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It’s key to stay energised and positive - that’s the first time as a dad you can help to carry that parenting responsibility.
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@downs_syndrome_association is asking us to write a few sentences about what life is like for us:
Happy! An adventure!
It is World Down Syndrome Day this Thursday 21st March and also Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week 2019 18-24 March this week!
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As it is World Down Syndrome Day next Thursday 21st March, the Down’s Syndrome Association asked me to write a piece for them about people and their response to finding out a baby has Down's Syndrome: us, our family, and our friends.
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Today it was rain, hail, snow and sun all in one day!
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Home embroidered cushion, with a pouch for books at the front.
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Teaching Coraline that life is about laughter!
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Kev took these tonight before I headed off on a night out.
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Thanks to everyone we’ve met at the Evelina for all you do for everyone in your care daily! We appreciate all of it, and the warm way you do it
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A few of Coraline at our friends’ house in Perth.
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Our article in Sutton & Epsom NCT magazine, Winter 2018 Edition, about our parenting experiences: “Love, acceptance and gratitude. Those are the three key things I think. I have adored these past months as a family with Coraline. My advice to other parents would be those three words: love, acceptance, gratitude.”
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Tate Modern viewing platform.
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We heard today that we are in the four finalist Blogs in the "Wellbeing Category" of the Bloody Awesome Parents SEND Blog Awards (for parents and carers of children with additional needs)! I feel so honoured by this, given the incredible line up of judges who selected the final four, from the original 15 nominees in this category.
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An internet dating success story
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Something else we learned on our travels. To go with the flow in terms of the new reality of travels with a baby.
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Coraline did really well on the flight home and slept in the bassinet all the way from Perth to Kuala Lumpur and for the first eight hours from Kuala Lumpur to London.
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It’s funny setting foot into the cold outside, enjoying that new atmosphere, with the warmth of all the memories of our trip.
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I took this as a sign to keep on living in the moment just as that moment is, seeing everything as an adventure and accepting what is!
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