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Hi,

I'm a 33 year old mum of 2 boys. My eldest son is 7 and my youngest is just 6 months.

Currently on maternity leave from my job as a nurse, I am enjoying the opportunity to write articles for Helium!

Having suffered a complex medical history (my hospital notes are as thick as 2 phone directories!), I am well versed in the throws of hospital procedures and the pitfalls of being a patient! Hence the articles I've written relating to health.

I live with my 2 sons and my partner of 3 years.

I enjoy sharing personal experiences as I feel that anecdotes I hear from other people in life can often be valuable words for future reference! I hope that the content of my articles will be of some help or reassurance to someone, somewhere!

Parenting & Pregnancy > Babies (Other) How to deal with a baby who needs surgery

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Every baby is precious, be it your first, or one in a long line of offspring. Having been born 6 weeks premature (May 22nd 2007)my beautiful baby boy had already spent 11 days in SCBU, which was traumatic enough to cope with. At 6 weeks of age he became increasingly constipated, and was sent in to our local hospital to get help. The medicine prescribed was not working, and he was becoming increasingly distressed, crying sometimes for several hours at a time. He was transferred to a specialist childrens hospital for a bowel biopsy. As if this procedure was not traumatic enough to watch and ...

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