Leo Robert Marchant

Leo Robert Marchant
Born 4th November 2006
Passed away 13 December 2006

For the short time you were with us you brought only joy and happiness to your Mummy Charlotte, Daddy Steph and your three sisters Georgia, Ellie-Mai and Sasha. You may be gone but we can always say you will never be forgoten.

The fourth of November 2006 you was born at 11.45pm, Four weeks early Weighing in at 3lb 140z. It was one of the best day's in my life, i had done it i have got the boy i always wanted. you was poorly when you was first born so they had to take you away and you went into the neonatel special care baby unit where all the doctors watched over you. I remember coming down to see you and you looked so tiny laying in the incubator with all these wires and tubes it was scarry but i knew they was there to help you. The next morning me and Daddy came to see you and they said you was breathing for yourself we was so relieved you was doing well but you still had to have antibiotics as your blood gases where still very high but you was doing really well, All i wanted to do was give you a big cuddle and take you home. I asked the nurses when would they think you would be allowed home and they said don't expect him home before his due date which was the 2nd December. I was gutted i had this big lump in my throat but i knew they had your best intrests at heart. The next day we came to see you we was allowed to get you out of the incubator and give you a cuddle it was great finially i got to give you that big cuddle i wanted to give you and tell you how much we loved you, I was also allowed to get you dressed it was so scary as you was so tiny, we also took some imprints of your feet and put them in your big sisters birthday card. as you couldn't be there with us. she loved it she even took it to school to show all her friends and teacher. I had to leave the hospital on that day which was the 6th of november as they needed my bed it was horrible leaving you there, but i had no choice. The next day when we came to see you the nurse told us that you was doing so well that they was moving you into the nursery room and that you could come out of the incubator and into a cot. We was so excited another step forward to coming home. The following day Daddy came to see you in the morning as i had to wait in for the midwife, and he feed you and with help from the nurses he got you dressed as he was scared of hurting you as you had your drip in your hand still. When he came home he told me that the hospital was waiting on your blood results and if all was ok you would be allowed home soon as you was feeding well and your blood gases were back to normal. And that day the 8th of November at 1.35pm we got the phone call from the nurse to say we could come and collect you at 4pm. We was so excited we phoned everyone up to tell them you was coming home. We had so much to do to prepare for you coming home as it was the biggest shock ever as we was told you wouldn't be home untill your due date. Daddy had to try and get the kitchen finished as he was in the middle of decorating it, And we had to go and get you a new snow suit as the one we had brought you was miles to big. We got to the hospital got you dressed into your new coat and took you home it was great you was home. Nanny Carole had decorated the front of the house in banners and balloons, And we had lots of visitors it was very hectic. That night we had a power cut it was funny as we had to sit for about an hour in candle light. The next day i took you up to the school to show you off, everybody said how beautiful you was. We took you down the town and people would stop and say oh how lovely you was and how small you was. Then your sister Sasha got poorly and had a bad cold and i kept your sisters off of school as the weather was terrible it was really severe winds and i didn't want her to get worse so we all stayed indoors in the warm. The following week our friend gal took your sisters to school for me so i didn't have to take you's out as you was so small i didn't want you to get ill too. But unfortunatly you did and on the 12th December i took you to see the doctor as you had a really bad snotty nose and you kept getting milk coming out of your nose, plus you wouldn't drink your milk properly so i knew there was something wrong as you was a little ganite as by this time you weighed 5lb 1oz and had been putting good amounts of weight on. The doctor told me you just had a cold and gave me some saline drops for your nose. I took his word for it as you do and went home, On the way home we went to the clothes shop to buy Daddy some new jeans and a top as he was outgrowing his old jeans. That night you was not latching on properly or taking a bottle you was struggling to drink it i eventually got you to drink your bottle at about 2am i was so tired as i had been up the previous night with Sasha i must have feel asleep on the sofa with you like i had done on many ocasions before. The next day 13th December Daddy got up to go to work as normal he gave us a kiss and realised something was wrong he shouted at me to get up and as i got up i realised you had blood coming from your nose and you looked very pale i grabbed the phone and phoned for an ambulance the lady on the phone told us to check you was breathing you wasn't. Daddy took you of me and tryed to resuscitate you untill the ambulace got there it seemed like hours. The ambulance arrived and rushed you straight to the hosptial where they tryed to bring you back but it was to late you had gone. We still don't know what you died from as we haven't got the postmortem results back yet they say it can take a while, they say by the end of march we should have some answers maybe then we can settle and know why because at the moment it is hard and all i keep thinking of is why you was doing so well. we got to lay you to rest on the 21st december it was really hard, We all really miss you. more than you will ever know. And i promise we will do our best to get some answers for you.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR PRECIOUS BABY BOY
LEO ROBERT MARCHANT
Love you always
Mummy.xxxxxxx

Leo Robert Marchant is a big brother to Samuel. xx
Wished you was here to with him.xx