As Nicole Brown gazes at daughter Miah, it’s impossible not to see the baby boy she held in her arms for the last time a year ago. Her son Micah was born with the rare genetic condition congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) and, after a six-month battle, his little body could not take any more and he passed away on New Year’s Day.
Just 10 months later, his miracle sister arrived and Nicole and her partner Ian McEwan said she is a gift sent to them by their brave son so they did not face the anniversary of his death alone. Nicole, who endured 16 miscarriages before Micah was born, told how she is counting her blessings and celebrating two angels – “the one in Heaven and the one on Earth”.
The makeup artist, from Drongan, Ayrshire, said: “New Year’s Day is going to be bittersweet. Last year we had just celebrated Micah’s first Christmas but then a week later we lost him and our lives shattered into a million pieces.
