Trigger warning: congenital heart defect, surgery, baby loss. Going from a very mixed bag of general and community nursing into a specialist heart ward was definitely a shock to the system. On the other wards I’ve considered pulling the emergency for a child who’s oxygen saturation’s fell into the low 80’s if they didn’t correct […]

The following blog post is a paid partnership with Deliveroo #AD  We don’t have a ‘takeaway’ day once a week like some families do (as we’re just usually here, there and  everywhere) but I probably end up having a Deliveroo or two a month, purely because I’m shattered/I forgot to take something out of the […]

I think it is important when reading my account of my first pregnancy to remember that my friends and peers were also 16. We hadn’t yet had to make a decision with such impact on our lives. I say ‘we’ because it really was a team effort. Noah’s first years were him being raised by […]

I have decided that I’m going to write a few blog posts over the next few months or so surrounding my pregnancy with Noah. I am an open book, however there are some things that I will always hold back. This however is not a story of shame as I thought in previous years, it […]

This Sunday is international nurses day and I thought it would be apt timing for a post discussing the axing of bursaries for student nurses. It’s confusing and not everyone knows the difference now or even that there is a difference! What was the bursary? The bursary was put in place to help alleviate the […]