Mila-Boo's quilt   (Quilt Coming Soon)

Theme details

Mixture - Emojis, hearts, ducks, monkeys, teddies, toothbrushes, lollies. A good mixture please, 1-2 of each.

A stethoscope on the label

Child Interests

All colours, bright, multi-colours, she just loves colour.

Emojis, Alderhey elephant mascot, hearts, ducks, monkeys, teddies, toothbrushes, lollies, Baby Shark.

Stethoscopes are her favourite (obsessed with doctors equipment)

Biography

Mila-Boo was diagnosed with congenital heart disease whilst still in mummy's tummy. She was taken straight to Alderhey where she was made stable until she was able to have her 1st open heart surgery.

Her 1st time under general anaesthetic was at less than 24 hours old and her 1st major open heart surgery at 5 days old. These surgeries have carried on over the years and up to now she has received 4 major open heart surgeries and a 5th surgery to her diaphragm. In her 2 and a half years she has been put to sleep 12 times and is constantly at hospital for different appointments and check ups.

2023 was the hardest year yet, she went into hospital for her 2nd stage heart surgery when something went wrong and she was on the operating table for 12 hours. She was on ICU on 4 different kinds of life support including a bypass machine and ventilator. As she slowly got better we spent a gruelling 5 months in hospital.

One and half years on and more surgeries later she's an amazing, sassy, strong little girl. She was called in before Christmas where we spent another 3 months in hospital due to her oxygen levels being at 40% but we were lucky to be discharged on oxygen 2 weeks before Christmas and she's since been thriving. Although we have a few surgeries left to complete we are all enjoying the life we have right now and I wouldn't change her for the world.

All the hospital stays and all the people who have supported us and made her the little person she is today amaze me every single day.