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Help Baby Freya

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Freya Marie Ashlee Meecham

 My beautiful niece Freya was born in Bolton Hospital on 31st January 2023, 6 weeks prematurely with 4 complex heart conditions: Coarctation of aorta - a birth defect in which a part of the aorta is narrower than usual, Hypoplasia of aortic arch - a blockage in a certain location in the aorta, Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) - a persistent opening between the two major blood vessels leading from the heart, and ventricular septal defect (VSD) - a hole in the heart.



 Freya was intubated at birth and transferred to Alder Hey hospital within 24 hours as she required more specialist care. She was transferred to the Neonatal Unit at Liverpool Women’s and Children’s Hospital however, she sadly started deteriorating due to cardiac failure, her lungs collapsed and her kidneys also started failing due to the medication she was given to treat her heart and lungs.

 Despite being under the required weight for her heart surgery which lowered her chance of survival, the doctor’s advised it was riskier to wait for her to get up to weight rather than operate, so the 8 hour open heart operation was carried out on 6th March 2023 at Alder Hey.

 Since her operation she has been recovering well on the cardiology ward but Freya’s parents have been given the awful news that she has a dangerous swallow and she will require long term use of a feeding tube, as she is nil by mouth, so the parent’s are having to undertake training on how to change her feeding tube, and contemplate how they are going to be able to provide around the clock full-time care for her.

 In another heart-breaking blow, the doctor’s believe her voice box has become damaged from being intubated as she has not cried since the day she was born, so unfortunately there is a high chance of her being non-verbal.

 As a baby with additional needs, my brother and sister-in-law are now having to find a more suitable home to bring Freya home to, as their current living situation is not suitable to raise her in, due to her congenital heart issues, her prematurity and vulnerability.

 Since Freya was born, her parents have been staying in hospital accommodation in Liverpool to be close to Freya, away from their other two children who have had to have been separated and living with separate grandmother’s and my brother has been unable to work so they have been struggling financially on top of worrying about Freya and missing their other two children.

They have been allocated a council house but due to their financial situation they are unable to afford to make it liveable or suitable for Freya’s needs.

Please help in any way that you can by sharing her story and any donation, no matter how big or small, will massively help to get baby Freya home, settled in her new home with her family, and to help relieve some of the financial pressures that the family have been facing since she was born 7 weeks ago.

We will continue to update on Freya’s journey, she has already been through so much in her short life, she is a little warrior. 


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  • Roxsand Lias
    • £30 
    • 1 yr
  • Marilyn McLardy
    • £20 
    • 1 yr
  • Donna Ryan
    • £5 
    • 1 yr
  • Anonymous
    • £20 
    • 1 yr
  • Tracy Pritchard
    • £10 
    • 1 yr
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Kieron Meecham
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Haydn Meecham
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