My names Jack, Dad to a beautiful, happy one year-old girl called Emily. Emily was born with CMN affecting a large area of her scalp and many smaller naevi around her torso and legs. Minutes after Emily was born, she was placed on my wife’s chest, and I spotted that she had a dark red…
My name is Stephanie and I have a beautiful little boy called Roman who is now 4 years old! Roman was born in August 2018, with a rare birthmark on his forehead that we now know as CMN. When he was born this was a complete shock to us, I had a very healthy pregnancy…
Our beautiful second daughter Emme, was born on the 9th July in Antrim Area Hospital. As with everything Emme does, she arrived on her own terms, 11 days after her due date. I had a fairly quick labour with Emme, after what was a normal pregnancy. I didn’t notice Emme’s birthmark straight away, I remember…
My beautiful daughter Eirinn was born with a bathing trunk nevus that covered most of her back. Only a handful of satellites were present initially, and over the years more appeared over her arms, legs and face. After an MRI ruled out any neurological complications, we were content that thankfully the CMN was cosmetic only,…
My name is Tracy, and I am the proud mother of Rey, the little beauty that’s on the cover of this edition of INSPIRE. Around 70% of Rey’s body has CMN ranging from small to large. Before I begin talking about Rey, it feels that my story wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t start with…
Our Warrior Princess Written by Eve’s mum – Sabrina After a perfectly normal pregnancy, our second daughter Eve was born on the 8th August 2018 with a very rare skin condition called Congenital Melanocytic Naevi (CMN). This condition is caused by a gene mutation resulting in more than half of Eve’s body being covered in…
On the evening of the 7th July 2017, our beautiful daughter Sofia was born at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. I had an uneventful pregnancy and a straightforward birth and we were completely unaware that Sofia was going to born with a giant CMN. When she was born, the midwife explained that she had a birthmark. I…
Elijah was born on 2nd May 2014, after a healthy, normal pregnancy. Our daughter had been born 16 months previously and having been induced to begin a 53-hour labor with her, we were delighted at Elijah’s easy arrival! We were “ready for this,” and we’d “had a baby already”- we were going to “really enjoy…
Jodi Ann Unsworth. Born at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, 6th September 1980. The grief began with the words …… “It’s a girl!”……… gasp ….. emergency ….. (we mustn’t let the mother see her child yet) ….. door flies open ….. in rush about 8 people ….. I just lie there numb ….. no emotions ….. no…
January 2013 was the month my husband Gareth and I found out we were going to be having another baby, overjoyed but nervous we kept this to ourselves for the first few months until the first scan, I remember driving to the hospital trying to prepare myself for this appointment (having had a few disappointing…