SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK & NEWS

I have been a little quiet recently on social media and blogging for a number of reasons.

Firstly, I went away to Florida for a week then on return went straight into the planning stages of a charity ball that Paul and I are hosting. 

We decided to host a ball next year in memory our our son Luca who was born sleeping and in celebration of his twin sister Ava, raising money for the Baby Beat charity. 

The charity provides a range of maternity services before pregnancy with research, during pregnancy with the latest monitoring equipment and technology to date including the wellbeing of the Mother and finally beyond with bereavement support.

So a lot of my time has been taken planing.

Secondly, I decided to have a break from social media as there has been a couple of fake instagram pages made in my name using my pictures and pretending to be me. 

I've known about a few of these  accounts since early summer and subsequently stopped uploading pictures on my instagram of my children back in June.

 I've reported the accounts many times but they simply just change the name and start again. Very strange and very very weird! like seriously who has the time ? Why someone would want to imitate someone else is beyond me!

I'm thinking that it has to be a child as i'd like to think that no sane adult would have the time on their hands and quite frankly be so sad, but then again you just never know. 

Just to clarify my user name on instagram is @hayleygallagher  not hayleycole8 or hayleyjgallagher 

I've also been volunteering in my local hospital for Baby Beat. It is a cause I am so passionate about and happy to lend my services.

Lastly, I have some news ...I have been asked to write a regular column in my local paper :) I am really grateful for the opportunity and will let you know when I the first one is published.