Pick Me Up!

Caring for Minnie

Wiping mucky ice cream off my baby’s mouth, there was no place that I’d rather be.

As my hubby Gavin, now 30, jumped in the pool with our boys Finley, now 11, and Cai, now five, I was on feeding duty.

Minnie, then one, tried a scoop of ice cream in May last year, and she loved it.

Enjoying a caravan holiday in Scotland, it was a memory I knew that I’d never forget.

However, life wasn’t always so carefree.

Diagnosed with chromosome 2q 24.2q deletion when Minnie was just two months old, we’d never heard of the condition before.

In simple terms, when the sperm and egg met, everything got muddled up and meant that 21 of

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