A nurse "panicked" when her newborn baby was "taken away" eight days after he was born.
Holding baby Kerem after a water birth at Liverpool Women's Hospital, Leanne, from Norris Green, noticed dark red spots all over his face. As an intensive care nurse, she was worried and asked the doctors to run some tests. At first it looked like an infection treatable with antibiotics, but then came the diagnosis - leukaemia, a form of blood cancer.
Kerem was in multi-organ failure by the time he arrived at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Leanne barely had time to hold her eight-day-old baby before he was placed in an intensive care cubicle fitted with wires and breathing support.
