This blog post comes with a trigger warning as I do discuss miscarriage in depth. There is another trigger warning reminder further down just before the paragraph I am referring to 🧡 Home birth dream …
Shouting Evie's Worth
Difficult Conversations
The last few months have been extremely heavy and taxing for us. Since writing this, Ross and I have made the very difficult decision to stay at home and not bring Evie to Boston. After …
Boston, re-visited
As many of you may already know, Evie was born with a complex set of congenital heart defects including AVSD (atrioventricular septal defect), HRHS (hypoplastic right heart syndrome) and a common AV (atrioventricular) valve with …
The Flight of a Little Bird
July 2021 At the end of the heatwave in July 2021, a tiny, perfect human was born. She came out pink and crying; the surgeon commented on how girly and pretty she looked. Although we …
Ireland’s Birth Stories – Episode 99 Featuring Brana
Brana was recently asked to be a guest on Corah Gernon’s podcast Ireland’s Birth Stories. The podcast is a space where Irish women can share their experiences with their pregnancy & birth. In her 99th …
Blue and Yellow for Down Syndrome Awareness 💙💛
With World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) approaching, I’ve decided to look into why blue and yellow might have been chosen to represent Down syndrome. There is a particular reason behind the 21st of March (03/21) …
Boston and Second Chances
Some raw thoughts about the second opinion we received from Boston
Evie’s Very Special Heart
When I was pregnant with Evie, we found out that she would likely be born with a set of heart defects too severe to be corrected with surgery. Our local hospital does not provide fetal …
Bear’s Birthday🌈
Trigger Warning – miscarriage, emergency surgery
I go into quite a lot of detail on this post so please don’t read on if you are triggered by this topic or unless you have good support ❤️
A Guardian Angel in Full PPE
Trigger warning – miscarriage
A poem I wrote after our 12 week scan during the heaviest covid restrictions