In January 2013 I gave birth to my beautiful daughter Amelia Rose by emergency cesarean 3 weeks early, she was born with brain damage. My amazing little fighter defeated the odds when she was taken off the ventilator, the doctors thought she would not be able to breathe on her own, but she managed to.

The time spent in the hospital was a very traumatic time with mixed emotions, all of the doctors and nurses in the SCBU at the RVI were absolutely amazing and done everything they could to make Amelia and her family as comfortable as possible (we even had Ali from SCBU running around finding us breakfast at 1 point)

Sadly Amelia Rose passed away on her due date 1st February 2013 at 3 weeks old. She filled our lives with so much love in so little time and touched so many people's hearts.

I feel like I am in a position now to try and give back to Tiny Lives, I am putting myself through the torture of The Great North Run to try and raise money for this amazing charity and would appreciate if you all could help me to do this by donating. Please remember to select for gift aid if you would like to donate.