Today I had coffee with a friend and we got talking about the saying ‘mother knows her baby best’ and telling mothers to ‘trust their instincts’ -excellent advice in my opinion. My friend said she too had these instincts with her dgc.
When my ds was tiny, I took him to the gp because I thought his umbilical chord wound wasn’t quite right. I was correct, ds had an infection. The dr was amazed at how I knew, as ds was my first (and only) child showing no real symptoms and the area didn’t appear particularly inflamed. His last words as I left were that he always listened to mum’s, because they always knew their babies.
Fast forward almost 33 years and my dil found herself in a similar position, adamant that something was wrong. I just couldn’t see it, and spent weeks trying to reassure her that it was first time mum jitters. GP’s & HV’s also dismissed her concerns, until the baby was 9 weeks old, when it turned out dil was right.
My ‘instincts’ clearly stopped with my own son 
But what about anybody else? Have any of you kept this special connection with your grand babies? I’d love to hear your stories.
and asked me what had made me think of that so I said well I'm a mother and all be it in name only a GM so I guess it's instinct.34 year old assisted euthanasia
