Daddy Downs Side Up Remembers

A usually intensely private man who holds his cards close to his chest, Natty's Daddy speaks of her arrival into our world.

Daddy Downs Side Up remembers the moment his youngest arrived in this word

A blog about Natty, by her daddy. 

As our second pregnancy progressed we were told there was a one in 300 ‘risk’ that the baby had Down's syndrome.  (I now note with sadness the negative language used.  We think of it now as a 1 in 300 ‘chance’.)  

Holland? Really Rather Nice After All...

Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley

Welcome to Holland

I've been reflecting this last week or so about this exact time of year, 5 years ago. 

Crisp, sun-blessed Autumn days, interspersing dull, dark, damp ones.  The urge to dash out and plant little clumps of daffodil bulbs around the garden whenever I had a moment and the weather allowed.  The pre-christmas excitement.

Only 5 years ago I was heavily pregnant with our second child.  And our bright, bubbly, beautiful first born was not yet in school.  It was she and I planting those bulbs together, enjoying precious Mummy and first-born time that can never be repeated in quite the same way.