Bronchiolitis is a nasty lower respiratory tract infection that affects babies under one. My twin boys had it aged just four weeks and one of them ended up in hospital on oxygen and being tube fed for three days. I'm so thankful they were strong, big babies who were born at full term as this helped them fight it. E is nine weeks old and she's been suffering with it since the weekend. We're managing to keep her hydrated (just), but her crackly, wheezy chest and her persistent, hacking cough are . . . Keep Reading
Gallstones and pregnancy
When I was expecting the boys I had quite a few complications towards the end of the pregnancy. One of them was having the liver disorder Obstetric Cholestasis that went undiagnosed for weeks. . . . Keep Reading
One of my twins had flat head syndrome (plagiocephaly)
This is a controversial subject and one that I'm passionate about. When T1 was about six weeks old we noticed the back of his head was quite flat. At the boys' first check up I mentioned it to the Dr and he assured me it was fine and would get better when he started to sit up and was putting less pressure on it. We thought nothing more of it. . . . Keep Reading