Hope for HIE *The first year * As days passed by, we were still waiting for big things to happen. Eliana still hadn’t cried, opened her eyes or even showed signs of a suck/swallow reflex. This was hard. She still wasn’t holding her own temperature and they were trying to get her sodium levels balanced. She had so much happening. […]
Our daughter, Aubree, was born on the 16th December at 9.12am. After approximately 14 hours in labour my waters broke which showed thick meconium, my partner (Tom) called for the midwife and before I knew it I was being wheeled down to the labour ward. The CTG was put round me and we were asked ‘who’s cutting the babies cord?’ ‘do you […]
Today marks 10 years since we stepped out of the NICU after (at that point in time) the most rollercoaster 21 days of our lives and the story really started to unravel. I wanted to write something really eloquent and profound but quite frankly I’m too tired today 🤣 Whatever stage you’re at, its OK to have shitty days, its OK […]
Eliana Mae was born into this world at 6:38 pm on September 18th 2015. Despite all the odds against her she fought her way through 7 weeks in the NICU. We were never given an official life expectancy lecture, what we were given instead were encouraging words of hope from her neurologist. He informed us that the brain is a magnificent […]
Following a beautiful, healthy pregnancy, I went into labour on the morning of December 7th, 2019. I woke up at about 5:30 am having some light contractions. I stayed in bed until about 7 am. When we got out of bed, we made raspberry pancakes for breakfast – something I had been craving. Danyel had planned to do his usual […]
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