Your story

Would you like to tell the story of your child and their time on the Baby Unit? Email us your story to yourstorygraceresearchfund [dot] org

We require 3-4 paragraphs, introduction, background story, current progress, thanks and if you have any nice photographs please send them digitally to us as well. We obviously have to be very careful regarding anything around children and so we will only use the child's first name, not their surname or other identifying information. For the same reasons we have not set this up as a chat room but as a way of sharing with other parents your story.

We may need to edit your story to meet the above requirements. It may take anything up to 1 month to appear on our website.

We look forward to hearing from you and sharing your story. Thank you.

Joseph

In 2008 we had the happy news that I was pregnant again and were very surprised to discover that it was a boy (no one in my family has boys!) but there was more news to follow: our baby had a large gap in his oesophagus (long gap oesophageal atresia) and potentially other health problems too.

Jude

Baby Jude was born on June 7th 2011, weighing just 3lb 4oz. Here is his story, written by parents Paddy and Kerrie

Arvir

Our Son, Arvir was unexpectedly born on 15th March 2008. At 23 weeks and 4 days, weighing 580g(1lb 5oz).

Krish's Story

Krish was born at on 21^stApril 2010, at 28 weeks + 3 days. We knew that he would come early but not this early!

Toby

On 1 November 2008 our son was born three and a half months early, for no apparent reason and with no time to prepare, Toby was born at 25 weeks at Warwick Hospital. He weighed 1 pound and 14 oz or 860g.

Imogen

Our daughter, Imogen was born on 24 March 2005 at 27 weeks by emergency caesarean section at UHCW, weighing just 990 grams (2lb 2oz) due to Mummy suffering from pre-eclampsia.