‘Thank you, Ben, that’s my favourite,’ he said as he kissed Ben and Ben grinned. When Ben turned two, I discovered I was expecting another baby, and Max was born on my birthday. Her name is Molly.’ Ben is nonverbal, but that doesn’t mean he can’t communicate. He makes noises that are not words: there are different kinds of sounds for happy, sad, interested, annoyed. Having Ben made me different from most of the people around me and for a while I thought that was unlucky, but it isn’t.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 00:03 UTC