My story

Updated on Nov 11th 2012 at 10:54 PM from the JustGiving API

Please donate. #WorldPrematurityDay

Updated on Jul 15th 2012 at 11:05 AM from the JustGiving API

Wow! Thank you Sid for your amazing donation.

Updated on Apr 20th 2012 at 9:25 AM from the JustGiving API

Thank you for your donations. Belle is running the Marathon for @BlissCharity this Sunday!

Updated on Mar 25th 2012 at 10:34 PM from the JustGiving API

Please donate www.justGiving.com/FreddieMcGill

Updated on Nov 8th 2011 at 10:12 PM from the JustGiving API

Whe-hey! £1270 raised for @BlissCharity! We need another £2000 to help save small babies. Please donate @FreddieWM

Updated on Nov 8th 2011 at 1:39 PM from the JustGiving API

@FreddieWM's Just Giving fundraising target, reaches £1240! 36% of the way to our target.

Updated on Nov 2nd 2011 at 10:12 PM from the JustGiving API

Thank you Stuart Nicholls for his massive donation to #FreddieWM's @Blisscharity

Updated on Sep 30th 2011 at 10:17 AM from the JustGiving API

Whoo-hoo. #FreddieWM reaches a £1000 today for @BlissCharity!

Updated on Sep 29th 2011 at 9:25 AM from the JustGiving API

Whoo-hoo. #FreddieWM reaches a £1000 today for @BlissCharity!

Updated on Sep 29th 2011 at 9:24 AM from the JustGiving API

Whoo-hoo. #FreddieWM reaches a £1000 today for @BlissCharity!

Updated on Sep 6th 2011 at 9:20 PM from the JustGiving API

Almost a 1/3rd of the way there. Keep donating to #FreddieWM & @BlissCharity

Updated on Aug 14th 2011 at 10:34 PM from the JustGiving API

#FreddieWM #JustGiving page. Ideas for event so far are 1) Swim Windemere 2) 10k run 3) Pram push across London.

Thanks for taking the time to visit Freddie's JustGiving page.

Freddie is our newborn premature baby boy, born Saturday 21st May 2011 @ 17.42pm, 28 weeks+2 gestation, weighing just 730 grams (1lb 9ozs) - He was born 11.5 weeks premature.

It costs £3500 a day to look after Freddie in Neo-Natal Intensive Care...he was in hospital for 82 days, a total of £287,000! (6 weeks in Intensive Care and 6 weeks in Special Care).

We wish to raise money for Bliss Charity, by making our friends aware of his story; to raise awareness of how common and traumatic, premature births are. Using our experience, we want to help other parents....Freddie's blog does just this and has had over 27,000 readers in 12 weeks....if everybody who read Freddie's story, paid just £1, that would be an amazing unthinkable achievement.

We plan to organise a sponsored charity run or swin in spring 2012...more to follow.

 


Background: Prior to birth, Freddie was transferred from Royal Free in Hampstead, London to the NICU (Neonatal Incubation Care Unit) & delivered at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent...the only incubator available, 86 miles away!... We traveled to visit him everyday....& finally, after 35 days & an exhausting 3000 miles, he was transferred to Barnet Hospital, just 4 miles away from home!...Another 6 weeks later, after a total of 12 weeks (82 days) at hospital, Freddie was finally allowed to go home, on oxygen support for his due date - his 0th birthday - on 11th August 2011.

Freddie's website is: http://freddiemcgill.blogpot.com

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So please dig deep and donate now. It really is simple.

Ross, Jenni & Freddie

My updates 1

Belly Lyles is running the London Marathon for @BlissCharity on Sunday 22nd April. Please donate for babies born too early like Freddie and help us reach our target!

18/04/12 11:58

My charity

Bliss, for babies born too soon, too small, too sick

Bliss, for babies born too soon, too small, too sick

Charity Registration No. 1002973, Registered Scottish Charity SC040878

Bliss is the UK charity for premature and sick babies. We offer guidance and information at a critical time in families' lives and we also fund ground-breaking research and campaign for babies to receive the best possible level of care regardless of when and where they are born.

Donations 121

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Much love to the Mc Gill family x

Donation by siobhan hockley on 15/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done to 'The McGill's'! Love from 'The Amooty family' a.k.a. P EEEEEEEEEE!! I'll do my next half marathon to raise money for you xx

Donation by Marybelle Lyles on 15/08/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Donation by Kate Still on 15/08/11

£1.00

+ £0.25 Gift Aid

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GO freddie!!! Amy.xxx

Donation by Amy Haywood on 15/08/11

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

Donation by Jess Capstick on 15/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Hope all going well.xx

Donation by cecilia silva debeney on 15/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous on 15/08/11

£30.00

+ £7.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Andrew Coombs on 15/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 15/08/11

£2.00

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A great idea to raise money for those parents and babies who are currently fighting to survive. Good luck to all of you.

Donation by Jackie Marchant on 15/08/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Donation by Laura Pearl on 15/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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I am happy to be giving to such a worthwhile cause. I hope everyone out there will ensure you exceed your wishes.

Donation by Keely Griffiths on 15/08/11

£20.00

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A great cause that has clearly been a 'Bliss'ing to the McGill's! Go Freddie!

Donation by Rich, Bev, Lucas and 'Flash' on 15/08/11

£50.00

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Keep fighting to full health Freddie x

Donation by GARY MANN on 14/08/11

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 14/08/11

£2.00

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My little cousin Freddie is an inspiration to so many and none of his story would be possible without the NICU departments :)

Donation by Sally Riseley on 14/08/11

£20.00

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Your story has not only humbled me but has given me the strength to see that my own problems are just a slight blip in the big picture of life.

Donation by Adrian Wigham on 14/08/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 14/08/11

£1.00

+ £0.25 Gift Aid

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Stay well Freddie x

Donation by Rachel Watkins on 14/08/11

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Glad to hear Freddie is doing well. What a fighter!

Donation by Ben Owen on 14/08/11

£1.00

+ £0.25 Gift Aid

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The 1st donation on Freddie's page. Our small gift back to Freddie, to raise money for Bliss Charity. It cost £3500 per day to look after him.

Donation by Ross & Jenni McGill on 14/08/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£2,329.25
  • Offline donations£0.00
  • Text donations£143.00
  • Total raised£2,472.25
  • Gift Aid£533.25

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