by Jamie Snape | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog, Family and Parenting, Politics
As the father of four young children, one of the great fears I have looking forward is that they might one day be bullied online. Obviously as they get older, I will spend lots of time coaching them on using the internet and social media safely and responsibly, but I...
by Jamie Snape | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Family and Parenting
Search the internet about labour, and you’re rightly going to find lots of incredibly helpful information and advice for women, from other mums and health professionals about what mums to be should expect when in labour and about childbirth. But what about us...
by Jamie Snape | Nov 25, 2016 | Blog, Family and Parenting, Local Issues, NHS
Exactly one year ago today, late into the night, I rushed our not yet one year old baby William to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Not for the first time in his life, he was struggling to breath and required hospitalisation to recover. Indeed earlier in 2015 after...
by Jamie Snape | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Family and Parenting
The following is short poem that I wrote for our baby Ellie one sleepless night in the week which followed her passing away. Those who know me well will probably consider me an unlikely poet, but I couldn’t find anything that expressed the right sentiment to be read...