Hi everyone my name is Natalie Barton. My husband John, myself and our family are trying our best to raise some much needed funds for our youngest daughter Alivia Barton.

For anyone that's knows us and has followed Alivias journey from she was 5 days old will know how Alivia didn't have a great start when she entered this world.

Alivia took unwell on day 5 of her life and that day changed our lives forever. Alivia has lived in hospital for the first 16 months of her life between Beflast Royal for Sick Children and The Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England.

Alivia was placed on an ECMO machine for 37 days and everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Resulting in Alivia having a stroke and now lives with level 5 severe cerbal palsy.

Due to Alivia having a virus from 5 days old which attacked her whole respiratory system and consolidated her lungs Alivia now has a tracheostomy that has saved her life.

Alivia will now be 3 years old in June but unfortunately everything that Alivia has been through and goes through daily means all those normal milestones that a baby should normally reach at certain ages of their lives Alivia doesn't get to have that chance. But with the hope of early intervention we are trying our absolute best to give Alivia the best possible care and therapy to help progress Alivia and who knows what the future could hold for her.

We have been offered a 10 day course of intensive physio, occupational and dmi trained professionals who will travel from America to Ireland to work on our daughter and with their help and hard work to hopefully progress Alivia and see what she could be capable of going forward. We are hoping plenty more opportunities like this will come our way. Our ultimate goal is to try and get Alivia on her feet.

Currently Alivia can not sit, crawl, walk etc if we can put as much work as we can in Alivia now while she is young we really hope one day we can see Alivia take her first steps with either support or alone who knows.

So this is where we need everyone's help with costs of therapy it doesn't come cheap. We currently go to an intense neuro rehab centre twice a week to which we pay for ourselves along with our family.

We are very blessed to have this opportunity of professionals coming from America and hopefully getting Alivia to reach her full potential.

If anyone can donate no matter how big or small or just a share we would be forever grateful.

God bless.

The Bartons ❤️