For most parents, by seven months old their baby is slowly starting to gain some independence, beginning to roll over, giggle and interact with the world. But for Hannah Wright and her partner Christopher Wright this couldn't be further from their reality with their son Theodore, or "Teddy" and "Little Ted" as they call him.
Born 10 weeks early on June 15 2022 weighing just 3lb 11oz, Theodore and his mum had a traumatic start to life. After a gruelling 28-hour labour in which Hannah was haemorrhaging blood rapidly and was forced to have an emergency hysterectomy to save her life, baby Theodore was born lifeless and needed 20 minutes of resuscitation to bring him back to life.
And this was not the end of the family's ordeal. At just 16-days old a brain scan showed Theodore had developed severe Periventricular Leukomalacia or PVL for short, it is a form of severe brain damage. PVL occurs because brain tissue has been injured and has died from a lack of blood flow and oxygen to the brain tissue before, during, or after birth, which Hannah believed in Theodore’s case was due to her labour.
