| Location | Warrington |
| Age | 0 |
| Date of Birth | 23/12/2007 |
| Date of Death | 23/12/2007 |
| Visitors | 3,014 since 05/04/2008 |
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Adam Driver
Born by emergency section on 23.12.07 and died 5 hours 20 mins later at warrington hospitals
special care baby unit
mummy and daddy - tracy and paul driver
sisters charlotte kiernan and sara driver
brother martyn driver
It was just eight weeks into my pregnancy with you that things started to go wrong. I started to
bleed and had a scan to find out what was going on. They found that I had a large haemorage in my
uterus and that my fluid levels were low. By 13 weeks the fluid had just disappeared completely. I
went through three painful amnio infusions to try to help you, but was told at 20 weeks your lungs
looked small and were likely to be damaged. We were told that you had less than 10%chance of living
but we had to give you that little chance - a decsion that I will never regret. You were so squashed
up that on scans we just couldnt see you properly at all. We were told at one scan that your little
foot didnt look right but like the rest of your little body it turned out to be just perfect.
At 27 weeks you just decided that you had had enough and wanted to meet us. It was a very scary time
for us as we were rushed to theatre as your cord had started to deliver first. You was born by
emergency section at 10.55 am. we first got to see you at 11.30am when you were wheeled past in your
little incubator to special care. I wasnt worried that I didnt get to hold you as I was just
relieved you were alive. The baby doctor told us that you were very poorly, but me and daddy never
gave up hope. We came to see you in special care you looked so tiny, although you were almost 3lb so
not as tiny as you could have been. I got to have cuddles with you and lots of your family came to
see you for the first time. Sadly it just wasnt meant to be, your little lungs were just too tiny
and they burst with the high pressures of oxygen and you also had a cardiac arrest. I decided with
daddy that it just wasnt fair to put you through so much pain. Your life support was switched off
and you died peacefully soon after in mummys arms. You stayed with us over night and the next day,
lots of people came to see you and gave you lots of cuddles. You were picked up by a nice man Robert
(the undertaker) on xmas eve, he took you away in a moses basket. It was very sad but I knew he
would look after you. Daddy arranged your funeral for new years eve. Mummy daddy and charlotte came
to see you in your little white coffin the day before. You were dressed in the clothes Daddy had
bought you - you looked so cosy just like you were fast asleep. Daddy carried your coffin at your
funeral, as we came in to church away in a manger was playing. We didnt have any flowers for you
except the ones off me and daddy, but all our friends and family donated money which we gave to the
special care baby unit as a thankyou for looking after you and to help other little babies like
you.
We love you always Mummy and Daddy xx
God makes little children
He makes them every day
And though He loves them dearly
He gives them all away.
He gives each to an angel
And says take baby down
To such and such a mother
In such and such a town.
Or such and such a cottage
In such and such a place.
He gives the angel with it
A big soul full of grace.
God does so love those children
It's all that He can do
To let the Angel take them
But he loves the mother's too.
And so he says I'll lend you
This little one of mine
The angel folds it's love
About the special gift divine.
The angel watches over
The child both day and night
So glad to see that lovely soul
All shining in God's light
God makes so many children
And every now and then
He seems to want one specially
We don't know why or when
He whispers to its Angel
Bring the child back to me
The angel sees a lovely sight
That someday we may see
It sees the souls of mothers
And fathers in God's light
Offering him tiny children
Whose souls are shining bright
God does so love those children
Whos souls are never dim
And how he loves those parents
Who give them back to him
Heaven made an angel
Then sent him from above,
Just to be my Son
And fill my world with love.
All the joy I ever needed
Was captured in his smile,
He filled my world with sunshine
If only for a while.
I never thought there'd be a time
That we would have to part,
When heaven took my angel back
They left a broken heart.
My lovely nephew
always in our thoughts you will never be forgotten always and forever Aunty Katy and maddison
this is something that always stuck with me
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
i am always here
always around you
always with you
i dont make a sound
i am always listening
always aware
i am always your baby
i will always be here
i will always be waiting
i will always care
when you come toeet me
i will be there always
someone who knows
My heart is breaking just looking at your photo's. I had a wee boy in 1984 who was born at 24 wks gestation. he was tiny but perfect. he lived for 6 wks and i really thought he was going to make it but sadly his wee body just couldn't take any more. You'll always miss what you should have had with him but be glad he was yours. God bless you and your family. take care x
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