Pictured above is Joshua John Gunnee  with parents, Natasha and Brian, and Friends of the Special Nursery web master, Gordon Mackay (left).

 

Joshua John Gunnee was due on the 3rd of December 2008 but I ended up going into hospital to be enduced on the 15th of December. Joshua was born at 12.33pm on Tuesday the 16th of December, my birthday! There were complications during labour and the doctors were worried about Joshua's heartbeat so I ended up having an emergency cessarian. When Josh came out the cord was wrapped around his neck twice and he had breathing difficulties and a chest infection. He was rushed down to the special nursery where he spent his first couple of days in intensive care and then was moved to High dependancy for the next few days. Joshua recovered well and was brought up to spend the last two days in hospital with me. After my surgery I had a blood clot and lost two litres of blood. The midwives and surgeons were great and saved my life. The pediatric team saved Josh's life too and that's why I wanted to raise money to say thank you to the Special Nursery and Aberdeen maternity hospital for saving us.

I raised £500 on my 24th birthday party, a year on from when we were in hospital. I had a karaoke party and did a collection to raise the money.

 

Our grateful thanks go to everyone who helped us raise this amount.