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Parents are “so grateful” for the “gentle care” they receive from charity, Every Life Counts, who support families whose babies have life limiting conditions.
Accountability needed
90km on the Waterford Greenway marking the Irish leg of a ‘Lap for Luca’ initiative.
Love in every stitch
Baby loss
Wave of Light
To help families who “feel lost and scared”
For the study, a total of 1,048 women with twin pregnancies were voluntarily prospectively tested
When I was pregnant with my baby girl, Líadán, we were advised at a scan that there might be an issue and sent to Dublin to have her checked out. At 24 weeks gestation, she was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, the same condition that doctors mistakenly believed was the prognosis for Baby Christopher Kiely whose […]
Vicky Wall says that the loss of her baby daughter brought her to realise that sometimes, even amongst the enormous pain and heartbreak of infant death, the small things also mattered. “When Líadán was born, she was so tiny. Beautiful and precious and perfect, but tiny. We took her home from the hospital in a cuddle […]
A fascinating new paper in a leading peer-reviewed journal should give parents of babies with Trisomy 18 hope – and should also give Irish doctors pause. The Associate Editor of the prestigious international scientific review, Pediatrics, notes that in regard to Trisomy 13 and 18, it has “become clear that these conditions are not lethal or […]
Waterford’s Vicky Wall has won a Butterfly Award in the UK for her work with ‘Every Life Counts’, a charity that helps parents whose babies have life-limiting conditions. #gript
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