Pick Me Up!

I’M NOT HURTING MY BABY!

Scooping my baby girl up into my arms, she was feeling a little worse for wear.

‘There, there,’ I soothed. ‘Mummy’s here.’

Poor Lilah, then six months, seemed to have a horrible sickness bug in July last year.

Holding my baby close, she wouldn’t settle unless she was in my arms. Only, every time Lilah shut her eyes to doze off, she’d start vomiting again.

I felt distraught – it was horrendous seeing my baby girl suffer.

Lilah couldn’t keep any fluid down and in the early hours of 18 July, I decided to call 111.

Even if it was just a tummy bug, it was better to be safe than sorry.

111 asked me to bring Lilah to A&E and so I called my grandma, Shirley, and asked her to come

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