Our daughter Kaitlyn Annie was born on 5th june 2006 at 2.48am. We knew antenatally that Kaitlyn was going to be born with a serious heart defect namely hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This basically meant that the left side of her heart would not be big enough to do its job properly. She will need 3 operations and then her heart will never be "normal"

I gave birth naturally with only gas and air. Kaitlyn was like any other new born , crying and pink , you would never know to look at her that there was anything wrong. She was whisked away to SCBU and the same day transferred to Birmingham children's hospital. We were elated and thoughts of the impending operation were put to the back of our minds....

We have created this site so that family, friends and many well wishers can keep up to date with how Kaitlyn is progressing.