March 26 is World Purple Day. Lisa and her son Oliver have ridden the rollercoaster ride of epilepsy since he was a baby. Here is her story: Thankyou Lisa for sharing your Source Mama story with us. 1. How did you first become aware that there might be a concern about your child’s health or …
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By Kelly Wilton If there’s one thing us mamas are great at, it’s being kind and caring to those who need us most. Even on the bad days, we show up and get the job done. However, when it comes to being kind to ourselves, who can say that they practice it daily?! Before we …
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I saw a social media post the other day that said: “I swear special needs parents could run all the large corporations and several medium sized countries if we weren’t so tired.” There’s something in this. If you’d asked me what skills I thought I might develop as a parent carer, I would probably have said …
By Kat Barlow: Empowerment Ethos The phone rang, it was the call we had been waiting for. It had been years of challenging struggles with so many doctors to get this MRI done. To see what’s going in inside Noah’s brain. Everyone kept saying they wouldn’t find anything. My gut told me otherwise. I picked …
By Kellie Galvin How did you first become aware that there might be a concern about your child’s health or development? What were the early signs that led you to seek a diagnosis? At around 18 months I began the questions with our GP, plus my son’s childcare centre as Jacob wasn’t talking and he was …
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By Kelly Wilton It was only the other day that I felt a huge relief lift off my shoulders. A check up with my son’s nuero with a kind and compassionate specialist who really looked at me and said “what you do is not typical. It is more than a lot of parents. You have …
By Julie Fisher 1. How did you first become aware that there might be a concern about your child’s health or development? What were the early signs that led you to seek a diagnosis? We received a pre natal diagnosis and the first inkling of Down syndrome was during the first ultrasound. While I was …
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By Kat Barlow: Empowerment Ethos I know that when things get hard I start to make up stories in my head. “If I don’t talk about it my mates that will make it easier…they don’t want to hear about my stuff…they won’t understand what I am going through…it will be easier to just detach…I don’t …
By Jodi Shenal In most rooms that I find myself in, I always feel like I don’t quite belong. When the conversation is steered towards parenting, no matter the company I’m in, I am always a bit out of place. Anytime I’m surrounded by other parents discussing all the “typical” childhood things, I can imagine what an alien who …
22 July is Fragile X Awareness Day. Our family is Lisa and Michael and our 4 children: Dylan (11), Braden (8), and twins Marcus and Lucas (5).I am a Fragile X carrier and so is Dylan. Braden and Lucas have Fragile X syndrome. Braden was born with a condition called Pierre Robin Sequence, which led …
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