A young girl has died after being found unresponsive at a property in a Scots town.
28.06.2023 - 12:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The parents of a Scots baby who died at just nine-months-old have told how the kindness of strangers got them through the loss of their child. Little Jamie Elliot was born in December 2018 with a number of severe complications, including fluid where his cerebellum should have been as well as hearing and sight loss.
Parents Fiona, 35, and Martin, 36, from Edinburgh, were warned that the youngster was unlikely to survive to adulthood and would never walk or talk. But after exhausting all treatment options, baby Jamie passed away peacefully at the city’s Kids Hospital in August the following year.
In the hours after his death, they were given three stuffed toy elephants which had been knitted by volunteers for the Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity (ECHC) - a gesture which helped them realise they weren't alone.
The couple are now backing a new appeal run by the charity called 'Never Forget' which funds memory making activities like hand and foot casts, charms and personal quilts. Fiona and Martin explained how the special activities provided by the charity have ensured they’ll never forget their baby boy.
Fiona said: “There aren’t enough words to tell you how important memory making is to parents who know they are going to lose a child. The support ECHC gave brought joy at a really difficult time.
“We were terrified we were going to forget things about Jamie - how tiny his hands and feet are, the curl in his hair, what his little fingerprints looked like.
“The memory making activities we did were so personal. They took our handprints and turned them into stegosaurus dinosaurs. The day Jamie died we were given three elephants, knitted by ECHC volunteers. They remind us not only of our son, but of the kindness of strangers. It
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