Christian amazes us EVERY DAY
Looking at my five-year-old son, Christian, you’d never believe he wasn’t expected to make it through his first winter. He was born with severe brain damage and doctors said that even if he did survive, he’d likely never learn to walk, talk or even sit up.
But time and again, our little fighter has smashed every limitation he’s been labelled with. Whether he’s signing along to his favourite Lewis Capaldi song, or telling his sisters he ‘wuvs’ them, our little boy is full of surprises.
When my husband Neil, then 34, and I first took Christian in we weren’t expecting him to become a permanent fixture in our family. You see, Christian was a foster baby. He suffered from something called HIE:
