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Rosemary MacCabe: ‘I’m not sure why we don’t bring him to A&E then and there’


by Rosemary MacCabe
11th Sep 2022

Rosemary MacCabe’s baby boy has a usually sunny disposition, which makes it all the more worrying when he takes a turn, one Friday evening after his second nap of the day.

I have been very lucky with my baby, I tell people. Sure, he still wakes at least three times every night and he screams when I change his nappy and he has destroyed our television remote by slobbering into it and he refuses to eat more than four bites of anything without a little yoghurt puff interlude, but I’ve been very lucky with my baby. He is an incredibly good-natured, happy boy who only really...

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