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Blog #6 – The darkest day

It’s late, around 10:45pm. Tears in my eyes. I’m driving by myself around 80mph on an empty country road. I’m coming up to a sharp bend. I have about 4 seconds to rapidly slow down, or not… 3…2… Rewind 10 years– I’m at high school, I’m in year 9 and life’s pretty good, I’m fairly […]

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Blog #5 – It’s a boy!

It’s a sunny Tuesday late morning in July 2020, I’m working from home. The ITV show “This Morning” was on the tv in the background, someone had just won a few grand playing “Spin The Wheel”.. then suddenly I heard a shriek upstairs.. Lotty: “Oh my god…” Me: “What?” Lotty: “Ohhhhh my god”. Lotty thunders […]

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Blog #3 – The Labour

The best/ worst day of my life… the birth of my daughter from my point of view. I struggle thinking too much about this time, thinking back I see the memorise with a hazy filter, a whisky coloured nightmare. The memory is clouded by heat, pain, exhaustion.. but then things get brighter and clearer. Friday […]

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Blog #2 – 9 months to grow up

After 3 weeks of discussions, a holiday to Spain, a trip to the Abortion Clinic, painful talks with parents, more discussions… we decided we both wanted to keep the baby. This idea of “Keeping” a baby might seem strange to some depending on view points of abortion but I will not go into that on […]