My Story

My youngest daughter Millie was born on the 8th September 2020 she was diagnosed at my 20 week scan with having Oesophageal Atresia which us an abnormality where her Oesophagues hasn't connected to her stomach so she wouldn't be able to feed orally,   which meant I'd have to give birth at Leeds Childrens Hospital and she would need surgery when she was born.

We was in neonatal for 8 weeks after she was born waiting for her to grow bigger to be able to have her repair done for Long gap Oesophageal Atresia, she had surgery at 3 days old where Mr Hannon her consultant and the surgical team inserted a gastrostomy in her stomach so she could have full feeds into her stomach while waiting to be repaired.

She had her repair done on the 9th November 2020 which was a big operation 7-8 hours and she had to be paralysed and sedated for 2 weeks after it as the repair was that tight and was complications after it with her having a leak and she had a lung collapse after she had to be re-incubated when waking up after her operation.

She is so much better now she does has a long way to have and needs stretches of her Oesophagues every 2 to 3 weeks, I finally managed to taker her home on the 26th January 2021 nearly 5 months after been born.

I thought at numerous times I would never get to bring her home after her big operation when things didn't quite go her way and was many complications but because of all the staff at Leeds they have worked tirelessly making sure my little Millie got through it all and helped her every step of the way, her consultant Mr Hannon has been an absolute superhero doing everything he can for her always checking in on her on his days off, the whole surgical team have been amazing, every single nurse and doctor who has helped look after her in Neonatal, PICU, Ward L42 and Ward L9 every single one of them treated Millie like she was family it was the most heartwarming experience to see complete strangers to us doing everything they can to help her get better and be repaired. I cant thank the staff enough for everything they have done for us and I want to help raise as much money as possible for them so I can try and repay them in someway for everything they have done . They are our Heroes and they deserve as much money to be raised for them as possible for life saving equipment etc to help everybody else who has to spend time in hospital with their poorly babies. Please please please help me raise as much money for them as we can 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤