The Alexa Trust proudly announces swimmers for our 2019 English Channel Relays Team Alexa Trust In association with Louise Jane Charters and Channel Swimming Association Read More
Tag: premature birth
THE MILK LOUNGE
by Sarah Poole – Neonatal Nurse, William Harvey Hospital “The inspiration for this room was to create a safe, relaxing space that will enable mothers to relax during what is often a very stressful and challenging time. Milk production is reliant on hormones, one makes milk, one releases milk, and when mum is anxious theses hormones are negatively Read More
IT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL! – We need your support
Any parent who has lost a child, regardless of the situation; miscarriage, stillbirth, infant, young or adult child death, will tell you that the physical ache in your heart never goes away. You learn to live with it, or should I say, keeping busy in life dulls it. Sometimes when you stop and think the Read More
PREECLAMPSIA – The continued nightmare
It’s 2:55 am and I cannot sleep, again… Nothing new, nothing unusual these days. The cycle of wakefulness has temporarily become part of my reality. I’ve learned not fight it but to go with the flow… Sometimes it can be soothing, as I build sand castles in the sky, but other times the anxiety attacks Read More
MY STORY – where it all begun…
‘Having been diagnosed with severe acute pre-eclampsia at 25 weeks, 4 days’ gestation, I was told the only thing that could “cure” the disease was for my child to be born. My organs were failing fast, but knowing that she wasn’t ready to be born gave as an almost impossible dilemma. We had to strike Read More