People say that you should trust your mother’s instinct, and in my case that couldn’t be more true. My daughter Adeline was just seven weeks old when she had surgery to correct a bowel blockage, but as the months passed she struggled to gain weight and by the time she was 18 months, she was tiny compared with other children her age. My husband Jordan and I were so worried and eventually she was referred to a paediatrician who did blood tests to check her iron levels. Despite his reassurance that everything was OK, my instinct told me otherwise. And I was right. Adeline’s blood counts were extremely low and she needed to return for more tests. When the doctor
