Rumer's Rainbow

Will parents really do anything to save their child? This article by Zoe Williams in the Guardian today is just another in a lo...

In June 2016, we were invited to take part in a neonatal ethics conference. We talked about Rumer and about some of the difficulties we ...

Even if you do 'win', there are a lot of losses I wrote this for another website. As far as I know, they haven't yet put ...

Quite often when we asked for things like access to Rumer's notes, or to be involved in medical decisions, we were told, in order to...

I wrote this letter when Rumer was 10 weeks old and in PICU, after an online friend shared her letter from a major UK hospital denying t...

This article from the BMJ was retweeted by a couple of our neonatal consultants: Is it Jane or Dr Smith? While I admit to having limit...

I've been searching for an analogy for this for a while, you know the type: imagine you're abseiling off a tower and half of the...

Hey, have you heard the one about the father who resuscitated his own baby daughter at birth when the physicians who'd promised to d...

The US folk call it 'slow code'; we don't have a phrase for it in the UK, but we probably should. I might suggest that '...

Your next steps This post is for parents who find themselves in the situation of being told that treatment will not be offered to their...

Creating a consistent message or colluding against parents? This had a slightly less provocative title when I first wrote it. I was go...