Wow. After reading this I’m flabbergasted! Drained and left wondering why I worry about the things I do. However, it seems Edith is a fighter and with that attitude I’m sure she’ll be teenage trouble in the way teenagers are!!

As it turns out, we do a lot for SANDS. Stillborn And Neonatal Death Society. Helen does the newletter plus helping with the yearly services. I help where I can with open houses and helping people with getting through their grief. Our involvement started with Elizabeth who died one week before she was due to be born – stillborn. Even now, no one knows why. Having to go through it was to say at the least difficult and traumatic and we still, and never expect, to fully get over it.

But, I hear many, many devastating stories that either involve the errors or problems with the emergency services or simply that children are fragile and don’t always make it.

Your story, a terrible ordeal for you and your whole family, has an ending that makes you realise there is always hope and to never give up.

Anyway, well done on the achievement – you must be as sore as hell!