Special Needs Baby
At 35 weeks + 4 days, despite being told there was a high risk the baby may die in utero, we made our birth plan, as we had to make decisions on how we wanted the baby to be delivered and what we wanted to do after the birth. The doctors had wanted me to… Continue reading 35 weeks + 4 days to The Weeks Leading Up To The Birth
I’d been signed off work after the 21 week scan, needing a while to process what we had been told about our unborn baby. It was as if we were on pause during this time and still shell shocked from all the information we had been given. Our life had somewhat stopped but the world… Continue reading Second Fetal MRI (32 week + 4 days)
I had never heard of the term Microcephaly before we had our first ultrasound scan at 21 weeks and it wasn't until a few weeks later that the term became embedded into my psyche. Around the time we were dealing with the news that our unborn child’s brain was not developing as expected, the media… Continue reading Microcephaly (22 weeks + 1 day)
I don’t know if I would have made a different decision about the amniocentesis if I’d had more time, but I feel like at the time the Consultant was more eager to carry out the process than I was. It all happened so quickly and I did not have enough time to think. We had… Continue reading The Amniocentesis
We'd just returned from a much needed holiday and hadn't really discussed the scan at length. I think we just pushed it to the back of our minds so that we could enjoy some quality time together as a family. It had been a demanding few months for the other half and my body was… Continue reading First Consultant Scan (21 weeks +4 days)
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