A few weeks ago a stranger messaged me via my blog to tell me that her sister had received the devastating news that her unborn baby had died, and she was booked in for induction later that day. And she asked me for my advice, whether there was anything I could share with her which would make the impending birth…
For the last few months the media has gone crazy with the speculation that Cheryl Cole is pregnant with her partner, Liam Payne; photographs first appearing of a slightly more rounded stomach, her Mum papped in Mothercare, Liam’s cryptic social media updates, and the usual “sources” tipping off newspapers. And the question on everyone’s lips is, “Why doesn’t she just announce…
Today, on World Prematurity Day, I can’t help but think about the weeks in which Eva, Megan and Harry spent in NICU at birth, about the worry, the frustration, and the desperate sadness at leaving the hospital with empty arms, having left in much the same way years earlier. For us, seeing our babies wired…