Life Stories

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“We eventually came to understand that ADHD is merely a symptom of ESSENCE (Early Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examination). Nobody had all the answers, but each one of the specialists we consulted added a piece of the puzzle in explaining my son’s behaviour and provided us with more insight.” A mother knows …  When our …

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I did not like being pregnant. I did not like the morning sickness that lasted all day and felt like a perpetual hangover. I did not like having a puffy, blotchy, ugly face. I did not like that my feet were forever hot and swollen. I did not like having to take my blood pressure …

I did not like being pregnant. Read More »

Before I had my first child, I had expected I’d be a natural when it came to breastfeeding, because my mother was one. She had had four children and breastfed them all. She loved breastfeeding so much, she even became a lactation consultant for a while.  But there I was, struggling. Anouk was 2.6 kg …

Painful breastfeeding because of a tongue tie. Read More »

“It was a bad time for us as a family. I was at my wits’ end. Morale at home was low. We fought, we cried, we did research, we made plans to help him. Then a  phycologist friend recommended that I take him to see clinical psychologist Dr Manfred Janik. This changed our world.” Grade …

 My son wasn’t “bad”. He was lost.   Read More »