CHD Awareness

Swimming with my heart child

I can still remember the first time I took Jessica swimming. It was on a day out at Butlins when she was ten months old. We’d been in the pool…

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"

Heart to Heart – July 2015

It’s been a year since I first started my Heart to Heart linky. Over this last year, I have been blessed to be a part of a small community of…

Me and hubby holding baby Jessica in intensive care. You can hardly see her for all the wires and tubes.

What it means to be a heart parent

It took just seven words to change my entire life. Seven words which broke my heart, shattered my dreams and turned my world upside down. Seven words from which I…

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"

Heart to Heart – June 2015

June: another significant month in the heart anniversary calendar for our family. The month in which we were given hope and offered the chance of an in-utero atrial septostomy to…

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"

Heart to Heart – May 2015

May is the month in which our heart journey first began, just over four years ago now. The 20 week scan appointment which turned our world upside down when we…

Friday 13th – a day that changed our lives forever

Friday 13th May 2011. A day that was hugely significant for us; a hospital appointment that would change our lives forever. Looking back, I recall it as a series of…

Four years of being a heart family

Four years ago, we walked into a scan room full of excitement at the prospect of getting to see our baby and left with our world turned completely upside-down. Four…

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"

Heart to Heart – April 2015

Since the early days following Jessica’s diagnosis, I have found it helpful to get in touch or chat via social media to other heart families – hearing their stories or…

Trusting my instincts

As a parent, I am the expert where my two children are concerned. I know them better than anyone else; their milestones, their likes, their dislikes and the way they…

From the mouths of babes #11

From the mouths of babes is a weekly linky which invites you to share a post, old or new, about something your children have said. Perhaps they have just started…