I was 6 years old and sitting in the bath playing with small toys, when I looked down at my skin and stared at the big brown, hairy, lumpy birthmark that covered all my back, wrapped around onto my tummy and continued down past my bottom onto the top of my thigh. As I stared…
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…
Hello, my name is Lynne, I have a son called Rhys, and he is 10yrs old and has CMN. Until 6 weeks ago we had never met anyone else with this condition. We met Jodi Unsworth in Liverpool, and many other lovely people who had children with this condition; we also met the children, which…
My daughter Scarlett was born nearly two years ago with a very rare skin condition called Congenital Melanocytic Naevus (CMN). No one in Cheltenham hospital had ever seen the condition and therefore were unsure where to send Scarlett, as she was not actually ill. To cut a long story short eventually we got to Great…
