Making SENSE of the World

Have you ever had an ear infection or a blocked ear and felt slightly dizzy or off-balance? Do you know why you feel this way? Have you ever thought how it is that your body automatically knows how to move its limbs? The answer is pretty miraculous, as all elements of the human body are. …

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Episode 1 of the new SuperLily Podcast is now available (Transcript now included here).

I am excited to say that I have made my first attempt at recording an interview using the podcast medium. Jessica Tuohy, Lily’s physiotherapist, very sportingly agreed to be my first guinea pig. In this episode, as a follow-on from my last blog post, we talk about early intervention, about what parents can expect from …

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THE PLASTIC BRAIN (& THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY INTERVENTION)

Did you know that the brain has the capacity to change throughout life –  to reorganise itself, sometimes to replace cells that die, and to create new connections? This malleability of the brain, which is a relatively recent discovery, is called “plasticity” or more accurately “neuroplasticity”.  A neuroscientist called Norman Doidge in his fascinating book, …

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WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PREMATURE BIRTH – PART 2

It is one thing to bemoan the status quo, another to try to propose potential improvements.  In Part 1 of this blog, I laid bare statistics that show increasing preterm birth rates and highlighted a concern, based on our own lived experience, that there is insufficient awareness about what it is to have a baby …

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