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Forever Baby: Jennyâ€™s Story - A Motherâ€™s Diary

By (author) Mary Burbidge

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â€œI have a darling baby. A patient placid baby who nuzzles warmly into her sheepskin and gives me a sleepy smile when I come in. She sits up, bounces happily and reaches out for a cuddle â€¦â€ â€œIâ€™ve had my darling baby for nearly twenty years now and unless something happens, I guess Iâ€™ll have her for another twenty years.â€ Praise for Forever Baby â€“ â€œMaryâ€™s writing has the quality of being both a participant and an observer. As a participant in a life and death voyage, she writes with emotional force. As an observer, there are some great passages of acute observation and stark â€“ sometimes black â€“ humour. â€œBut the dominant emotion is love: love given by Mary and the Burbidge Family to their daughter Jenny; love given by Jenny to Mary and family. A special love for a special child, which we are privileged, through this book, to share.â€ The Hon. Joan Kirner, former Premier of Victoria â€œSome people just burn with a brighter flame, and Mary Burbidge, doctor, mother and fierce diarist, is one of them. When Mary gave birth over twenty years ago to a disabled baby girl, she began writing from the heart to make sense and meaning of her life. â€œI have quoted Maryâ€™s experience in one of my own books, but I could never have suspected the dramatic turn of events that would conclude this story. The gritty, heart-bursting world of parenting is captured in a way that I have rarely met elsewhere, but the drama, transcendence and tragedy of raising a child with a disability takes this to a deeper plane still. â€œJennyâ€™s story and Maryâ€™s telling of it, will grip the reader and change how they see the world around them for a very long time.â€ Steve Biddulph, psychologist and author