Hello world!

First blog post, here we go! 

Hi! I’m Courtney, 26, Midwife and mum to our gorgeous 6 month old, Finley, who has achondroplasia. I’ve decided to start this blog for three reasons. 1) In the hope it might help other families in our position, give advice, share our experiences, and hopefully make them feel a little less alone. 2) To document this journey purely for myself to look back on! Time moves so fast once you have kids, that I selfishly want to soak up and remember every little detail. And 3) To raise awareness, for a condition not widely spoken about, where many people think they know what it is/ what it means, when actually they don’t. 

So let’s rephrase that intro shall we? Hi! I’m Courtney, 26, Midwife and mama. Both my partner and my son have achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, and I’m here to talk about it! 

Let’s talk about the questions you’re too scared to ask, the diagnosis, the ‘how do you make that work?’ the good and the bad, the highs and the lows. The emotions, the diagnosis, the care we’ve received, peoples opinions, and peoples lack of opinions! This is a safe space, to talk about it all, to share my own personal experience as an average height female, madly in love with my below average height partner, with our scrummy little boy. Welcome, I hope you learn something today, and if you take anything away from this, just be kind.