Author: Louise

Anger

The handwritten version of my spiral poem on "Anger"

A little trigger Anger starts to simmer Try to take a deep breath and calm down Tension is growing Anger’s embers are glowing Shoulders tensing, jaw clenching and frown Anger takes its hold on me – mustn’t let it control me – But the fuse is shrinking by the second Muttering and glowering Anger overpowering… Read More

Pre-schools and painting

Jessica's painting of a fish

Jessica will be getting her funding for pre-school from January next year and so we have started to look at the pre-schools near us in preparation for this. We are lucky enough to live within five minutes’ walk of three different pre-schools/nurseries so we are concentrating on these as I am hoping not to have… Read More

Heart to Heart – July 2014

A heart with the text "Heart to Heart" on one side and a picture of hands making a heart over a child's chest with the text "A linky for sharing posts about CHD"

Our journey as a heart family began just over three years ago at a routine 20 week scan. We arrived at the scan that morning as excited parents-to-be, looking forward to seeing our precious baby on the screen. We left the hospital with our world falling apart around us. Being told that our child had… Read More

Expressing and sharing

A freezer drawer full of frozen expressed breastmilk

I have been a breastfeeding mama for just over two years in total. In that time I have done a lot of expressing. From the days after Jessica’s birth when she was a tiny baby recovering from heart surgery in the paediatric intensive care unit, to twelve long weeks of expressing to keep up my… Read More