Initially when I fell pregnant with my first son, just like other expecting mums out there I felt happy and excited at the thought of being a mum, then the sickness started! Forget morning sickness, it was all day sickness and it was exhausting. Eventually I was admitted into hospital because I just couldn’t stop vomiting. I was so desperate for the pregnancy to be over so that I could feel normal again. I never had the chance to enjoy being pregnant as I had expected too

I found out when I was a teenager that I was dyslexic, though by this time I had missed out on any opportunity to take exams except for my art. I remember when everyone else was doing their exams and I wondered why I wasn’t, I was later informed by a teacher that ‘they were beyond me, so there is no point in you taking them’ at the time I didn’t really care that much and just continued to live in my own world not thinking much about the future or what I might even do with m