I LOVE YOU, MUM
Most expectant mothers dream about their children’s futures – wondering whether they’ll be shy, smart or wonderfully chatty – and I was no different when my daughter Sophie was born. But what do you do when doctors tell you your seemingly perfect baby has an incurable genetic disorder? How do you come to terms with knowing she’ll need lifelong care and you’ll never hear her call you ‘Mummy’, or say ‘I love you’?
My husband, Mark, then 31, and I were overjoyed when I fell pregnant in April 2014, especially as I’d suffered irregular periods as a teenager and doctors had warned I might struggle to conceive.
In January 2015, aged 29, I gave birth to
