Christmas can be stressful for an an Autistic child As you know, my eldest son is autistic and over the years we’ve adapted how we…
Reena AnandDecember 22, 2020
Being a mum of an autistic child I've learnt to flexibly adapt my plans to suit my eldest's mood - often it works but sometimes…
Reena AnandMay 12, 2019
We were over the moon when our son was born five years ago. After my earlier miscarriage - see Don’t say the ‘M’ word - I…
Reena AnandApril 2, 2019
I'm the eldest of three children who grew up in a traditional Indian Gujarati household where the gender roles were squarely defined. This meant that…
Reena AnandMarch 11, 2019
Seven years ago I lost my baby. Though others didn’t call it that. It was called a ‘missed miscarriage’, a foetus, a zygote and ‘it’…
Reena AnandJanuary 22, 2019
Autism creates an interesting reaction amongst Indians. There’s the Fix-Its who’ll say “we’ll find a doctor in India that will have a cure” (because obviously…
Reena AnandJanuary 4, 2019
Cancer When I was 22, I stopped my Masters degree to became a full time carer for my terminally ill mum; she had cancer. She’d…
Reena AnandDecember 22, 2018
So, like most working mums, I pretty much work at full throttle 100 percent of the time. A typical day looks a bit like this:…
Reena AnandDecember 10, 2018
I'm a mum and career woman from a traditional Indian background who's exploring writing as a way of expression and to spark discussions on things…
Reena AnandNovember 19, 2018
