No one has children in the hope that they will struggle or have special needs. No one plans their child’s formative years around therapy sessions, home-programmes and changing schools. It is hard to acknowledge and even harder to accept. By the August of N’s first year at playschool (which was tumultuous to be nice), we […]
On 31st March 2016 I gave birth to my beautiful son via C-Section at 1.86kg at 7:42a.m. He had stopped growing in utero and was delivered at 36 weeks. Perfectly formed, with thick dark hair, and oh so tiny. He could breathe. Whew. They placed him on my chest for a matter of minutes and […]
I am not sure if my son is so visual because he couldn’t speak until he was almost 3, or if it is his natural aptitude (or both), but it has always been his greatest strength (that and dogged persistence). For the first approximately 3½ years, his communication was dominated by a system of symbolic […]