NEC – Baby Loss Awareness Week

NEC Tag

10 Oct

Posted at 18:46h in Stories by

  We lost our only child, to necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), aged seven weeks. Our daughter had also been diagnosed with a life limiting genetic condition at a prenatal screening. Almost 4 out of every 5 babies born with full Trisomy 18 don't make it to one year. Sarina...

05 Sep

Posted at 15:29h in Stories by

  Freddie was born at 24 weeks gestation, and he even cried at birth. He was thriving, but at 15 days old Freddie was diagnosed with Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). The consultant who operated on Freddie’s bowel said he’d had this for about a week before it had been...