Baby CrazyEgg has been fed by nasogastric tube her entire life, 18 months thereabouts. She was very premature, and had mixed success with drinking from bottles. (And no success with drinking from the breast I might add, but I had been using a breast pump for about five months by that point, and Baby CrazyEgg's technique was just not the same as the Medela Symphony, with its adjustable speeds and strengths of 'suck'.). When she had a bit of a choking episode there were fears that she might aspirate, or inhale the milk, which would be very dangerous. So we moved to tube feeds only, and we learned how to insert a nasogastric tube, test its position and deliver a feed ...  Read the complete review

I love Christmas, the one where everybody is happy and more eager than ever to do good deeds. Where material concerns are not important, a gift is a gift no matter what it cost and everybody loves each other. This is the Christmas I've always tried to create for my family, and my parents despite not being overly well off did their best to create for my sister and I. We never really had the sibling rivalry thing about presents partly because there is a 7 year gap between us and we had very different interests too, so the comparison of pressies never really meant anything. I would have been delighted if my 'pile' consisted only of books, weird little boxes, ...  Read the complete review

My Best Christmas Present ever: What makes a good Christmas present? I don't think it is to do with money, I don't think it has to do with size it all comes down to the thought and the feeling behind the present. Growing up it was all about things being fair, did my parents spend as much on me as they did on my siblings and did I get bigger presents and more impressive presents that everyone else. I once got a Power Rangers Megazord that at the time I thought there was no way it could be beaten. Anyway over the years I have of course come to realise that there are much more important things than the Power Rangers, even if there aren't that many. ...  Read the complete review

I love Christmas, I am not a greedy or spoilt person, but there's something about getting nice indulgent gifts one day a year that really floats my boat! As kids we never had a lot, we were quite skint, more so than these days and we didn't ever have the latest trainers, and the latest computer games. Having said that we never went without - just maybe an alternative. I remember my Mam making us costumes for school rather than buying them, or getting hand me down uniforms and shoes rather than new (this is still something I love now!), we would get 2nd hand toys at Christmas, and instead of having money and material things thrown at us we were absolutely (and ...  Read the complete review

Whenever I think of my best christmas present, there is only one thing that comes straight into my mind with no doubt. Not only is it my best present ever but also one of my first memories. - My Story - __________ I had just celebrated my 3rd birthday which also falls in December, a little over a week away from christmas. My mum took me into our local toy shop. I remember going into the small shop and heading to the very back. Studying the shelves I saw something that was perfect and just what I really wanted more than anything else! That's all I remember, but obviously my mum paid for it and we took it home. ...  Read the complete review