Our Story To say we'd been blessed was a understatement. Luca was conceived using the ivf method (as was his sister) and we caught first time - again. Luca was due April 18th 2011, however the little man had other ideas and on May 1st 2011 at about 9am Luca arrived into this world weighing 7lb 3oz via caesarean section. We had 5 amazing months with Luca, we took hundreds of photo's and many video clips that we will treasure dearly for the rest of our lives. Everything changed the morning of September 29th 2011. Our day started out pretty normally, Luca woke at 6am, he was brought in to bed with me so I could breastfeed him. At 7am our alarm went off and I passed Luca to his Daddy so I could get our daughter ready for school. I left my son that morning happy and content whilst his daddy fed him baby rice and his bottle, and I went off on the school run followed by the gym. Luca had been put down for a nap at 9am and when my husband checked on him 10 -15 minutes later, he noticed something wasn't right. Straight away he called 999 and was instructed what to do by the emergency operator. Within minutes two Ambulances had arrived and whisked Luca off to Hospital. Getting that phone call whilst at the Gym was gut wrenching and the drive to the hospital was frantic. Once at the hospital I was taken to the side room where my husband was already waiting - immediately I was thinking that this is not a good sign. We were asked if we wanted to be with Luca, which we did without hesitation. The resuscitation team were still working on him - which was horrific to see, but never the less we wanted to be with him. After what felt like forever Luca's heart started to beat again so they transferred him to ICU where they continued to try and stabilise him. Just after 1pm a specialist paediatric team from Bristol came down with the intention of moving his care to Bristol Children's Hospital. Unfortunately that never happened and as time passed Luca's body was slowly shutting down. Just after 5.30pm we got the horrible news that their was nothing more that the Doctor's could do for him. I got to hold him as they disconnected all his tubes and wires - he looked like he was sleeping - I wished he was. Most of our family had the chance to say a final goodbye and to hold Luca one last time. We held him until 3am the following morning - i could of held him forever but at the same time i knew I had to physically let go. But letting go emotionally - well that will never happen. We all love you our precious little cheeky boy & we will miss you forever! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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