The journey home The 6 weeks following my baby's birth went too quickly. I was told when I would be returned home and unlike the others, I was not traveling with them but alone with my baby. We mostly travelled with our babies. Some parents interested in adopting came to the home to view, one of us girls was sent to [...]
The Beginning. It was a week after my parents discovered I was pregnant and I was on a train with my mother to the start of my new life. I had a life before that and I knew I would have a life following that, but this journey made me whole. With older parents and a very restricted life I [...]
My babies father is not high on my list of things that I would want to talk about. You see the emotions that come up are not good for me. If asked I would say he was a good man, although he was very much a boy at the time I knew him and as I have not met him [...]
My head spinning, i went to hospital with my partner and my daughter, they went in a separate ambulances. My daughter couldn't remember much but said she had been told that my partner had pushed her over and hit her splitting her head open, she believed this was the case, the next day her memory started to come back and [...]
What is a name to me? I have lots of names and will no doubt have many more before my life is over, some are fleeting, whilst others are more lasting - Baby, oddles, teenager, girl, girlfriend, woman, wife, partner, mother, mum and grandma. Then there are the pet names that parents and people close to us call us as a [...]
Facebook Addiction I am sure you have heard people say that they have an addiction to Facebook or some other social media addiction, maybe you have even thought or said it about yourself. There is no doubt that Facebook and how we use it to stay in touch with friends and family has for some people meant it has taken [...]