In Episode 5 of The Long Road Podcast, host Lisa McKelvey will speak with Aylish Maher a wife, to Mick Maher and mother to two beautiful children Miley and Monty.

The Maher family begun their long road on day one of Montys life. Monty has a severe cardiac condition and was diagnosed with 22q deletion. Monty is currently 4 years old, and Aylish speaks about the whirlwind of the first year, time in the Queensland Childrens hospital and life as they know it now.

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Tamara Lloyd, together with her husband Jono are raising 3 beautiful children. Life definitely has its challenges with their eldest Kai (13 yo) having high functioning autism.

Kai is non verbal, and in her 13 years of raising Kai, Tamara has never heard him say the words I love you. Only a handful of times has she heard him say the name "mum". Yet their bond is so so special.

Tamara chats with host, Lisa McKelvey about raising Kai, family life in Goondiwindi QLD and all things autism.

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Sarah Moorcroft had always dreamed of having children, and after meeting her husband John and having her first born, soon found out, its not always as straight forward as you would imagine.

Sarah chats on the podcast with host, Lisa McKelvey, about her second born son Hunters time at the Queensland Childrens Hospital with inflammation of his heart muscle - Myocarditis, life since, and some of the things she has learnt on this precious journey.

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