Latest News

26th April 2008

Help Colin raise funds for the Caring Matters Now Support Group

Even amongst health professionals, awareness of CMN is low because it is a rare condition, so our first challenge as parents was to find information about the condition and what treatments were available. Fortunately, we discovered the Caring Matters Now website and were directed to the centre of expertise at Great Ormond Street Hospital led by Dr. David Atherton. more>>

3rd April 2008

My Story by Jodi Unsworth

My name is Jodi Unsworth (27) and I have a large Congenital Melanocytic Naevus (CMN), which covers 80% of my body. CMN is a large, dark brown/black, hairy birthmark which covers areas of the body. more>>

24th March 2008

BABY PASCALE by Jessica Ma

I was aware that the midwives were not handing her to me right away. The midwife mentioned the baby was a bit slow to cry so she was going to administer some facial oxygen and did so. Then I heard the baby cry but they still did not bring her to me. The two midwives and my husband were hovered around the corner of the room with the baby and I heard them talk about a “birthmark”. Finally, they brought her to me wrapped in a towel. I could see what was indeed a very big, dark mark on her abdomen. more>>

28th February 2008

New Caring Matters Now website launched!!

After many months of hard work, our new look website is launched and is now live on the world wide web! The new design has been developed to incorporate our new logo and company colours and will be frequently updated with all our latest news and information about the CMN family days and all our other activities.