New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

BIG BUDDY, BIG HELP! ‘I thank the universe for Pat!’

‘I didn’t have any time to myself ever, which is why I’m so grateful now’

Devoted mother Bronwen Tollan and her 12-year-old son Andre have been through a lot together – including a congenital heart condition, and a diagnosis of both ADHD and autism.

It’s been relentless at times, but Bronwen knows it’s all worth it for her much longed-for child, who took seven years to conceive and was born three

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