Last week I shared a post about the challenges our family are facing with sleep right now. I listed the many things that we had either bought or tried to help our daughter's onset of sleep. The tent canopy and pressure blanket were fairly successful for a week or so but this exciting novelty then… Continue reading Marvellous Magnesium
Tag: PDA
Guest Illustration from Missing The Mark
The wonderful Eliza Fricker has very kindly put this illustration together for me. I was instantly drawn to her blog https://missingthemark.blog/ as everything she illustrates completely fits with our experiences. I was asked on BBC Radio Leeds by Stephanie Hirst if I felt lonely on our journey. I certainly did to start with but it’s… Continue reading Guest Illustration from Missing The Mark
Exciting Times
There have been many endless lockdown days when we have just not known what to do with ourselves but I have tried to put any spare moment to good use. Whilst I haven't been able to press publish on my latest blog post yet, there has been plenty of work going on in the background.… Continue reading Exciting Times
Can’t get no sleep
I look back to the weeks before our second beautiful daughter was born. It was all planned out meticulously. The birth pool was ready, the positive affirmations were up on the wall and hours of hypnobirthing tracks had been listened to. In reality though, shortly after each and every calming piece of music started, I… Continue reading Can’t get no sleep
PDA???? What’s that?
In the decade that I was born, the 1980's; a professor named Elizabeth Newson began using the term 'Pathological Demand Avoidance' to describe the presentations of children she assessed in her clinic at Nottingham University. Newson et al. (2003) listed a defining criteria for the diagnosis of PDA but like so many people I have… Continue reading PDA???? What’s that?