My reasons for raising money for Arrowe Park Neonatal Unit are very simple, they took extra ordinary care of my twin girls and did everything they could to save their precious lives.

My beautiful girls were born extremly prmature, at 23+2 weeks gestation. I was told in no uncertain terms, that things did not look good and that it was very unlikely there would be much hope of either of them surviving. Not the news a newly expectant mother wants to hear, none the less the neonatal team were present at their birth and quickly got them vented, in their incubators and rushed off to the Unit.

The first time you enter the Unit, its the most frightening experience. All the beeps and alarms, the strange machines, wires, tubes and monitors are so terrifying. Seeing my babies for the first time and not being able to hold or touch them was heart breaking. You could hardly see them with all the tubes and wires, they were so tiny they almost didnt seem real.

Over the next four months the team at Arrowe Park became our family, they gave us support, guidance, friendship, extra special care, they mourned with me, cried with me, taught me and laughed with me and the day before their due date, they waved myself and Pixie good bye.

On the 18th February 2014 I took my baby home. She is a happy, relaxed very chilled out little lady and more to the point shes here and living because of the neonatal staff.

They are incredibly special people that do an amazingly, hard job. This is our 'THANK YOU!' X X X

And Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully sponsor myself and all the other parents/family members/friends and staff that are going to fly high at speeds of up to 100mph along a MILE LONG zip wire in Snowdonia on May 4th 2014!!!

SPONSOR, TAKE PART OR COME AND SUPPORT US ON THE DAY!............................MAY THE FORTH BE WITH US!!

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