24th December 20180

Christmas Eve

Christmas can be hard for some people, I’m fully aware of that. All the promotion and commercialisation of what it should look like and how happy we are supposed to be can be...

by Louise Ormrod

General

4th April 20181

My Child Can Teach Yours…

Whilst flicking through Facebook recently, looking at Autism awareness posts, it made me realise how many mothers I am friends with whose children don’t fit into the...

by Louise Ormrod

Hospital

1st July 20160

Here we go again…

Wednesday Freddie (and me) ended up spending another night in hospital. His blood pressure was high (side effect of the steroids) they had to monitor him and give him...

by Louise Ormrod

Hospital

29th June 20160

We’re back in hospital…

Freddie has high blood pressure because of the steroids. It’s 3:40am and I’ve had two hours broken sleep because Freddie won’t sleep unless he’s on me. It’s too much. I’m so tired.

by Louise Ormrod

Diagnosis

26th June 20160

It’s still early days

We’ve had the second check up with Freddie’s consultant, this time his Community Nurse and Child Epilepsy Support Nurse were both there. It’s reassuring they all work very...

by Louise Ormrod

Diagnosis

24th June 20160

These moments..

mean the absolute world to James and me. These smiles come so rarely and when they do they’re gone in a second, I’m shocked I managed to capture one. I can’t believe how much...

by Louise Ormrod

Diagnosis

22nd June 20160

There will be bad days

Today was a bad day. Freddie had a bad day. The good ones give me hope, faith and strength, the bad ones make me wonder how I’ll cope. His eyes were vacant today and he was...

by Louise Ormrod