Following his early arrival on Dec 29th 2023, Elliott spent 8 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Rotunda Hospital.

There he had one day of breathing & feeding support, a schedule of phototherapy and a blood transfusion.

Although his case was low-risk, due to the nature of the complication which prompted the early delivery the team took a precautionary approach to his start to life.

To raise much needed funds, I’m cycling 570km from Mizen Head to Malin Head in 2024, raising as much as I can. You can see a recent example of how under-resourced the NICU team are in this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/rotunda-staff-resort-to-online-fundraising-for-equipment-1.4119765

Please follow @endure4nicu and donate what you can here. Your donations will fund additional equipment, research and infrastructure that is not funded by the State - thank you!