You can listen to this Podcast on Anchor.fm or Spotify. The transcript follows below. ROBYN Welcome to the third episode of the SuperLily Podcast. Today I am so excited to welcome Nicole Hilburn, who is an experienced paediatric physiotherapist, and who we have been lucky to work with initially in South Africa and subsequently via …
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Placenta Previa & the Birth of a Micro-Preemie: A Personal Story of Hope and Faith. By Julia Thomashoff I am delighted to introduce our second guest contributor, Julia Thomashoff. Julia’s daughter, Chloé, was born at 27 weeks. Six years later, when Lily was in the NICU, Julia became a great confidante for me, especially in …
SuperLily Podcast on Anchor.fm SuperLily Podcast on Spotify TRANSCRIPT: ROBYN Hello, a belated Happy New Year, and welcome to the second episode of the SuperLily Podcast. Today I am so excited to welcome Dr Gillian Saloojee, who is an experienced physiotherapist in South Africa. She has a special interest in developing and strengthening therapy services …
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An Innovative Way to Support Children with Special Needs Billy Samuel Mwape is the Zambian father of a little boy called Lubuto who, like Lily, has cerebral palsy. In September 2020 he gave a TED Talk entitled “An Innovative Way to Support Children with Special Needs” In his talk he describes the approach he …
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. …
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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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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