The grieving parents of a child who died after just seven hours have vowed to help others in their position. Charlie McAndrew, 20, and Natalie Hudson, 19, from Bilborough lost their baby Cruz on January 3 shortly after he was born, to what doctors suggest could have been Renal Hepatic Pancreatic Dysplasia, a complex and rare disease which caused him major heart problems, liver complications, and tumours in the kidney.
The couple were able to spend more valuable time with Cruz after his death because of a medical device which they say is in short supply in the UK - a cold cot. A cold cot is a refrigerated cot that allows parents to spend longer with their baby than would otherwise be possible.
The pair are now fundraising to buy the machines for Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital. Dad Charlie McAndrew, 20, said: "From about five or six months in the pregnancy we found out quite a few problems about Cruz, they found lots of tumours in his liver and he had a blocked bladder. Since he passed away they came to us with the potential diagnosis of Renal Hepatic Pancreatic Dysplasia, and there were less than 10 families in the world suffering with that.
