Emilia Isobelle Edwards

Mummy has taken a big step and has gone back to work. I can't always get on to your site now Emilia
as much as I would like to but I know you are still by my side and with me every minute of every
day.

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
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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
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