It was about two months ago, in the middle of March, that my daughter started coughing. I'll admit I was blithely unconcerned. Frankie is nearly 11 and generally pretty robust. She's rarely ill ...
My sister has been diagnosed with cancer. It is very advanced, and the treatment is brutal. I decided to relocate temporarily ...
At 21, Ewan Jewell should be embarking on his first steps to full-adulthood and independence. But he was left brain-damaged after catching whooping cough at just two weeks. His mother Mel ...
I have a grandmother who’s on her own now since my granddad passed away a few years ago. I’m in my thirties and married with two young children and, although we’re doing OK, we don’t have ...
THE UK is in the grip of a whooping cough outbreak and experts say it's up to parents to get their kids jabbed to protect them. It's otherwise known as the ‘100-day cough’ - and here, we have ...
I work evenings and I am the primary caregiver of my 6-month-old granddaughter. My daughter lives with me and works mornings often on weekends. She is trying (again) to work on her relationship ...
Last August, Lucy Letby, a thirty-three-year-old British nurse, was convicted of killing seven newborn babies and attempting ...
If these walls could talk, they’d probably scream. A woman was shocked and revulsed after realizing the “monsters” her daughter had heard were actually a swarm of 50,000 honeybees living in ...
A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to appeal ...
When it comes to naming a baby, some parents turn to the Big Book of Names for ideas, while others seek inspiration from things in their everyday lives. That's exactly what one mum decided to do ...