Special Needs Baby
Although 16th March 2016 was one of the best days of my life, the whole day remains a blur and I have snippets of memories of what happened. I realise now that I didn’t remember what time Aiya was born, I had to look it up. I don’t remember dropping my son at nursery that… Continue reading March 16th 2016
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 was desperate for a little girl when I fell pregnant with Aiya. I would constantly daydream about what it would be like to have a daughter and how it would change my world. I would day dream about shopping with her, lunches, afternoon tea, teenage angst, thinking if my daughter was anything like me… Continue reading Aiya’s First Haircut
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)
Project Aiya 