A Highland couple who lost their new-born baby thank hospital team that fought to save her
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A couple who lost their new-born baby are raising money in her memory and for the neonatal unit that fought to save her.
Isla Rose was only six days old when she passed away in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow on March 16.
Her mum Nikki Winning, of St Margaret’s Road, Dalneigh, said there had been complications during labour and Isla Rose sustained serious brain damage.
Nikki (33), a surveyor with Warmworks, said: “The treatment Isla Rose received was outstanding and the care they showed me and my partner Andy was amazing.
“It has been a very difficult time, but I want to see Isla Rose’s short life make a difference.
“Although she is no longer with us we want her to be remembered, and for something good to come of her short life.
“I went into labour thinking I was having a perfectly healthy baby, but sadly this wasn’t the case. There were complications during labour, which meant she was starved of oxygen, and although she fought for six days, the effects of this meant she couldn’t pull through.
“Although we only got six days with her, we are so lucky to have had that time, and cannot thank enough the neonatal intensive care unit for keeping her here with us as long as they could, and allowing us to make memories we will cherish forever.
“What these nurses and doctors did for us was beyond anything I could have imagined.”
Nikki said that when the pandemic started she moved to Glasgow to isolate with partner Andy and fell pregnant during that time.
She added: “Although Isla Rose, my first baby, was unplanned, she was no less loved, and it is really good to think she can help the unit at the Queen Elizabeth.”
Among those helping in the fundraising drive is Nikki’s friend Inga Mackenzie, who recently started her Kick Fit boxing and kickboxing class business at Inverness Ice Centre, and has pledged her August profits to the Isla Rose fund, which has generated more than £2000 so far.
Nikki said: “I hope to continue to raise money throughout the years.
“Isla Rose is my angel, who will always look over me and give me strength to carry on. I only wish you could have met her yourself to know how truly special she was.”
n Donations can be made to www.justgiving.com/fundraising/islarose2021
