Motherhood, Guest Laura Oldfield Motherhood, Guest Laura Oldfield

Guest Blog: A day that changed everything for Caz and her family (all about Hydrocephalus)

Shortly after, we found ourselves sitting in the room. the room was a little white ‘Counselling Room’. I had walked past it on several occasions during this pregnancy and each time it had made me go cold. In the little room they gave me a tissue and a glass of water. Loss of brain function was mentioned, specialists were mentioned, unknown outcome…

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10 things I wish I’d known about the 72 hours after giving birth to my first baby…

Quite why - after just 30 hours at home with my baby - any of us thought it was a good idea that I “nipped to Tesco” I’ve got now idea. I remember standing in front of the trolleys, trying to hold a stupidly heavy car-seat, while my bent coccyx and stitched lady zone screamed out in pain, panicking as I said to my mum “where do I put her? Will she be SAFE?” I tell all my clients the rule of two weeks: one in bed, one week on the sofa,

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