Emilia Isobelle Edwards

Our beautiful princess.

Always loved and forever in our hearts and thoughts.

We miss you every minute of every day.

Wrap up warm!

mummy x x x


Missing you everyday on today your 3rd angel day. Play happily with the angels.

x x x x

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY


Hope you have an extra special day in heaven today. A beautiful sunny day where you should be running and playing in the garden with us all.
Would give anything to see your big brown eyes and smile as you opened your presents.

we will all be going the childrens hospital on monday to donate your present to them. i hope you like what we choose.

Love you always
x x x x


It's 2 years this week since you got you wings I can't believe that the time has gone so fast.
You will never be forgotten.

forever loved.




9th April 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILIA!

you are 2 today and we can't believe how fast the time has gone. this is not thebirthday we ever wanted or thought we would have. It breaks our hearts not having you here.

I got the hug you sent, thank you, stay close always.

love you alwys and have a good birthday in heaven. x x x x x



16th January 2010
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It's your angel day today Emilia, and i can't believe you have been gone a year. i remember it all so clearly, even your last little breath, it all is so very painful,

I love you with every part of me,it hurts without you here.
love you always and forever until we meet again.


Emilia is my beautiful princess who lives on in our hearts and minds every day.

I am trying to visit you on here too, but it seems to make me so sad. Keep mummy strong and stay by my side darling, I love you so much.

Thank you to everyone who visits Emilia and lights candles and tributes it means a lots to me.

I love you and miss you so much my darling. I still don't understand why you were taken and everyday is still so painful without you.
love you always
mummy
x x x x x x x x x



To my beautiful baby girl. You are always in my heart. I miss you every second of every day and wish you were here in my arms. Taken from us without warning to the angels above.

We love you and miss you, our smiling happy baby and sister.

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I became pregnant with Emilia in August 2007 and although it was unexpected, a delightful surprise none the less. Ewan and Georgina were going to have a new brother or sister.
The pregnancy went pretty much the same as with the other two, lots of sickness and feeling totally exhausted. My husband Neil would often come home to a complete wreck on the sofa.

We had various scans throughout the nine months and on one particular scan it was discovered that the baby had duplex kidneys which then resulted in more scans and finding out if there was anything else. The hospital discovered that Emilia had no opening on her bottom. We were told a rare condition but something they had come across before. She would need surgery pretty soon after birth and various more corrective proceedures.

Emilia was born at 4.08am on the 9th April 2008 weighing a healthy 6lb 13oz. She was 38 weeks by now so I got the natural birth I wanted for her. As she had the abnormalities with her kidneys and the cloaca she was taken to the Neonatal Unit.

The following evening Emilia was transferred to Birmingham Childrens Hospital. on the 11th of April they operated on her to create a stoma. Emilia recovered well and soon began breastfeeding and after just over 2 weeks we were finally able to bring her home on the 28th April 2008.

Emilia soon established her own little routine and afer a few initial problems with her stoma we soon had it all going well.
Ewan and Georgina loved having a baby sister and were always giving her kisses. Emilia quickly settled into the chaos and was a really happy and contented baby much more easy going than her older brother or sister.

Emilia struggled to gain weight and although she was happy and developing normally in every other way it was decided to bring her corrective surgery forward to February 2009 rather than waiting untl she was one.

Emilia had a gorgeous smile which would light up the room and the most beautiful big brown eyes. She would hold onto Ewans finger whenever she sat with him, either having a cuddle at home or when in her car seat. Her little giggle could soon make everyone laugh and smile and she enjoyed nothing more than banging and making noise. Emilia always was in the thick of whatever was going on at home, we didn't realise how much noise she made until she was gone. Sadly Emilia never learnt to crawl but she would sit up and play happily with her toys and with her brother and sister. She loved just after Christmas sitting between mummy and daddy once the other two had gone to bed and playing with a huge tin of roses chocolates. She loved the shiney wrappers and throwing them all over the place.

Emilia had been teething for a couple of days and so had a few restless nights. The tooth that had been causing her the discomfort broke through on Friday 16th January 2009 in the morning, Emilia died that same day.
During that day Emilia had been sleepy which I put down to her finally being able to sleep now that her tooth was through.
I took Emilia and Georgina to collect Ewan from school and then Ewan had a swimming lesson. Whilst we were at the pool I fed Emilia at 5.45pm.
We arrived home at about 6.30pm at the same time as my husband. After the usual chaos of getting everyone in and the dog sorted Neil said to me that Emilia was awake. He picked her out of her car seat took one look at her and called for an ambulance this was at 6.48pm.

Before the paramedic arrived she had stopped breathing. The speed at which she died is absolutely breathtaking and unbelievable. She was literally here one minute and gone the next. Neil tried with the paramedic to ressucitate her along with the ambulance crew sadly to no avail.

By the time we arrived at the hospital I knew in my heart of hearts that she had gone. The doctors at the hospital tried to help her but at 8.10pm she was pronounced dead. The vision of her little lifeless body will stay with us forever. How could she be dead?

Her little body had been over come by Invasive Group A Streptococal Septicemia which resulted in massive organ failure. Thankfully a post mortom was not necessary. I couldn't bear the thought of them messing with my baby. I just wanted her to be left in peace.

Emilia's funeral service took place exactly 2 weeks after she died on January 30th 2009. She had been baptised in the same church just 3 months before. She has been buried in our local churchyard which is where we got married and she is withinn a few mintes walk of the house, she is as close to home as we could get her. We can just see the church from our bedroom window.It is a lovely country church where the rabbits hop around and the birds sing and now the lambs are right by her in the field. We are now learning which flowers the rabbits don't eat!!

Everyday we miss her smile and giggle. We will never forget her and part of us died with her too on that night. She was our beautiful happy baby. Ewan's princess and Georgina's sister to cuddle.

Sweet dreams darling.

Mummy, Daddy, Ewan and Georgina
x x x x x x x x x