Prematurity

Episode 3 of the SuperLily Podcast is now available

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 …

Episode 3 of the SuperLily Podcast is now available Read More »

FINDING THE MAGIC

Last week Lily turned 2. I asked my sister, Sally Evans, an accomplished journalist and editor, to write a guest blog in celebration of this milestone. ________ And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe …

FINDING THE MAGIC Read More »

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. …

Making SENSE of the World Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PREMATURE BIRTH – PART 2 Read More »