Pick Me Up!

BRAVE SMILE

Laying back in my hospital bed, the nurse wheeled me into the Neonatal ICU.

I just about caught a glimpse of my four-hour-old baby before suddenly, he stopped breathing and the nurse wheeled me backwards.

Flying out of the doors, I watched as doctors and nurses swarmed around my son.

‘What’s wrong with Logan?’ I panicked.

‘They just need to sort him out,’ the nurse comforted me.

Needing to know what was happening, my husband, Danny, 29, went back to check on him.

Thankfully, Logan was now breathing, but it had been one hell of a day.

In fact, I hadn’t had the easiest pregnancy at all.

At 20-weeks, we discovered Logan had a heart condition called Pulmonary Atresia and Ventricular Septal Defect.

Essentially, it meant he had a hole in his heart.

‘It’s very serious and could lead to multiple

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