Emma Smith

Baby Max Smith

Fundraising for Headstart4Babies
£2,508
raised of £2,000 target
by 191 supporters
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Emma Smith's fundraising, 21 July 2011
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Story

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WELCOME TO BABY MAX'S JUST GIVING PAGE!!

I really hope you Can help us get to our goal!!

I will start the beginning! Our son Maxwell (Max) was born 22nd
march 2011 4 weeks premature after a long and difficult pregnancy 

He was admitted straight away to the special care baby units ICU
department were he remained fighting for his breathing difficulties 
for 5 days before been transferred to the special care baby unit for 
a further 5 days he was then happily all in the clear and was allowed 
home to us and his 2 brothers Ethan aged 3 and Luke aged 2.
 
From birth max has suffered with reflux our health visitor and DR
advised turning his head and keeping him raised up to help/stop him
 been sick luckily this reflux seems to be calming Down now he is 
on a special baby milk.

At around 5 weeks we started to notice a slight flattening of the right
 side of max's head we asked for this to be checked at his 6 week 
check and the DR dismissed our concerns just saying he had 
seem worse and give it time! 

Since then despite repositioning and lots of tummy time max's head 
has become worse now even his right ear seems to have been 
pushed put of alinement 

This situation is worrying us so much That after visiting Dr's max 
has been diagnosed with severe plagiocephaly and brachycephaly 
which is a severe flattening to the skull the only option now after 
months of repositioning is the helmet treatment.

The helmet treatment involves using a scan of the babies head to 
construct a helmet which will be worn for 23 hours per day for 3 to 6 
months this will realign the skull over time 

The treatment is so expensive at approx £2000 but we are willing to 
do anything to help our baby.

unfortunately we just don't have that sort of money and like most 
things it will take quite a while to save that amount and time is 
something we do not have max is at the optimum age for treatment 
and the younger he is the less time he should have to wear the 
helmet! 

Our goal is to raise the £2000 for max's treatment we would ask 
anyone who would Like to help no matter what the amount really 
EVERY penny helps to donate to max's Justgiving page 

ALL donations go direct to headstart4babies the charity for children 
with these conditions the charity in turn will use the donations under 
max's name to pay his treatment bill

Please forward his page info to anyone and everyone you can by
word of mouth or social networking we have also designed some 
posters if you have anywhere to display them!?

Thank you so much for your time I will keep this page updated
throughout all of max's treatment and will include pictures
ONE OF THE MOST EASY WAYS TO DONATE IS VIA MOBILE
TEXT MAXS99 AND ADD THE AMOUNT TO DONATE AND SEND
TO 70070

Thank you all so much

Emma and simon smith

And of course baby Max too :)

 

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About the charity

Headstart4Babies

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Headstart4Babies is a small charity raising awareness of plagiocephaly and brachycephaly, two little-known skull conditions which can affect young babies. It also provides help and advice to families face with the condition and raises money to assist families on low incomes to proceed with treatment.

Donation summary

Total raised
£2,507.60
+ £456.27 Gift Aid
Online donations
£2,507.60
Offline donations
£0.00

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