Pick Me Up!

TEETHING PROBLEMS

Hearing cries erupting from the crib, I knew I’d be the one to jump out of bed.

Soothing my daughter Neve, now 19-months, back to sleep, it wasn’t a case of my husband Matt, now 43, not wanting to help, but holding our daughter would make him feel like his head was going to explode.

The constant, loud newborn cries worsening his already horrendous vertigo symptoms – a constant, debilitating sensation that Matt had experienced for five gruelling years.

Getting back through the door after my four-day hen do in Spain, in May 2018, I wasn’t met with the warm welcome that I was expecting.

As seeing Matt, I knew there was a problem.

‘I had my root canal sorted,’ he reminded me.

Knowing that Matt

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