On 3rd December 2017, Benjamin Jack Odey was born 12 weeks early, weighing 3lbs 1oz.  Ben spent 5 weeks in critical care at Heartlands Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit before being transferred to the Special Care Baby Unit at Good Hope. Ben was ventilated and then on oxygen for 4 weeks and had to learn to breathe on his own and how to feed, before coming home on 7th February 2018. He is now a happy and healthy baby, and this is all down to the dedication of the staff at Heartlands and Good Hope. 

We are looking to raise money to help the unit at Heartlands (who saved Ben’s life)  buy some more equipment. Our NHS is more stretched than ever and every penny counts when it comes to buying equipment to keep these small babies alive and prepare them to come home. A few thousand pounds will buy an oxygen machine to help them breathe or a breast pump to help new mums establish their milk supply to provide their poorly babies with valuable breast milk. Please give what you can to help us buy one of these pieces of equipment to help parents going through the hardest period in their lives, and one no one can prepare you for.

Team members: Tom Odey, Louise Jones, James Bagan, Lawrence Betty, Jack Coley, Jayson Daw, Steve Luckett, Adam Smith, Oonagh Smith and Richard Tubb