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Closed 05/02/2018
Iʼve raised £2,585 to help fund corrective helmet therapy for Stanley.
- Funded on Monday, 5th February 2018
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Story
This is our beautiful son Stanley. Stanley was born at 35 weeks in a traumatic emergency c-section using forceps. Stanley went straught to nicu with breathing difficulties but thankfully only spent 5 days under the care of the amazing doctors and nurses.
It became apparent immeadiately that Stanley's head wasn't the 'norm' when we first visited our son in nicu. This deformity continued to be noticable but feeding difficulties took over our concerns, being told Stanley's head would rectify itself.
Following 3 weeks of pure breastfeeding hell we took Stanley to a feeding therapist who advised Stanley's difficulty latching and feeding had strong connections to the shape of his head, how he was born, his prematurity and that from this he had developed torticollis which meant he could only look to one side and also involved his suck and swallow co-ordination.
Through physiotherapy and regular exercises Stanleys torticollis has improved, Stanley's head deformities have not. Stan has since been diagnosed with severe brachycephaly and plageocephaly. Helmet therapy is the only option to improve Stanley's outcome and to avoid any potential correctice surgery in the future. This therapy however, is not funded by the NHS and we therefore need to raise £2000 as any parent in our situation would try to do.
Thank you for reading Stanley's story and we whole heartedly appreciate your support.
David and Bethany (Stanley's proud parents) x
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- 7 years ago
Bethany Watts
7 years agoUpdate : we have confirmed our first appointment with the clinic which is on the 18th January.... this is for the fitting of Stanley's new helmet.....thank you to everyone who has donated, you've made the process SO much easier to deal with, we love you all so much. 💙💙💙 Look out for Stanley's updates xxx
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- 7 years ago
Bethany Watts
7 years agoWell...to say we are overwhelmed is a complete understatement...ive had a proper cry! Thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us in helping Stanley. This means the extra money can be used for travelling to and from leeds over the next 6 months every 1-2weeks.... a huge expense we didnt even consider to ask for..... thank you so so much. This now means we can 100% focus on helping Stanley without the added burden of worrying about finances.... We are truly blessed to have such amazing, self-less, supportive friends and family
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- 7 years ago
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54
Hannah Davies
Feb 3, 2018
From a fellow NICU parent. All the best to you and your boy.
Hayley Ward
Jan 8, 2018
It’s not much but hope it helps. Big kisses to gorgeous Stanley. Love Hayley and Leah xxxx
£10.00
Milly Metcalfe
Jan 7, 2018
£10.00
Tatiana Xyda
Jan 7, 2018
Love you both. Such a tough thing to go through but so happy everyone has come together for you. Xxxxx
Catherine Watts
Jan 7, 2018
We want Stanley to be well all our love mum and dad
£100.00
Catherine Young
Jan 7, 2018
I had no idea! Good luck with everything I hope this helps! Love you guys 😘
Daniel Hardy
Jan 7, 2018
£100.00
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