Meet Our Families
The Beer Family
In September 2011 our son Dylan was taken to Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was diagnosed with an infection of the bloodstream, Streptococcal A septicemia. With Dylan being only four years old at the time of diagnosis, we were devastated. We spent all our time by his bedside and didn’t want to leave, we could think of nothing else ...
The Binns Family
Rafferty Gunnar Binns was born on 27 February 2012. They say baby number two always comes quicker, well Rafferty was delivered by a paramedic on the bathroom floor! Not quite the delivery we had planned nor the long stressful birth I had anticipated. The next two days we were all at home; Rafferty didn’t seem to feed well ...
The Bowler Family
One afternoon last summer, our 15 year old daughter Jade complained of feeling unwell. Over the following days her face began to swell up and she developed a pain in her leg so I took her to our local doctors in Norwich where they immediately did blood tests. When the tests came back later that day they showed ...
The Copperwheat Family
On 17th December 2012 our baby boy, Noah was born 15 weeks premature at The Rosie Hospital in Cambridge and was sent straight to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). His early birth was such a shock to my husband, Dan and I. It was even harder to cope with as we had been monitoring my pregnancy really ...
The Giordano Family
Rainbow House in London became our ‘Home from Home’ for 40 days last October when our, then seven and a half month old son, Emanuele, had to have two operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Emanuele was born in our home country of Italy on February 23 2011 with an oesophagus atresia – a congenital medical condition ...
The Oliver Family
In August 2011, my wife Gemma was having a few problems in her pregnancy and on 18 August 2011 we went to our Hospital (Durham) as we had several times, just expecting Gemma to be examined and be sent home again. When we got to the hospital a doctor examined Gemma and quickly ran to get a senior ...
The Thompson Family
We were lucky enough to stay in The Sick Children’s Trust’s Eckersley House for four weeks last July when our daughter, Lola, was born with Gastroschisis – a condition which affects 1 in 5000 unborn babies. Lola was born on 7 July 2012 and it was the happiest day of my life, but that happiness soon turned to ...
The Warnell Family
Our world was turned upside down in May 2012 when our 5 month old baby daughter, Nina, was diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder called ADA severe Combined Immunity Disorder which means she has no immune system - it affects just 1 in every 500,000 people. We live in Poland, but the doctors there had done all ...
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