Four years on from their own heartbreak, a North East couple have successfully founded a charity to support families with seriously ill babies at the Freeman Hospital.
Amanda and Kevin Charlton have launched the Lydia-Rose Heart Foundation charity in memory of their little girl. Lydia-Rose died aged 15 months. She had been through more than 20 surgical procedures in her short life, as she was born with a condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS).
The little girl, who was born in May 2017, was a "miracle" to her parents, who had spent a long time hoping for a baby. Now, in her memory and inspired by the charities which helped during the family's time in hospital, Amanda told ChronicleLive how they hoped the Lydia-Rose Heart Foundation would be able to give back.
