Thanks for having a look at my page! 

I am running the dublin marathon and hoping to raise some money for the charity Tiny Life, NI's premature and vulnerable baby charity. Tiny life also support parents with babies in the Neo-natal unit, which is where we first came across them. 

My daughter Layla was born 5 weeks early following Jenny's diagnosis of pre-eclampsia. Thankfully she was healthy and had no major developmental problems, but due to low birth weight, not feeding and hypothermia, she was admitted to the neo-natal ICU at the Ulster hospital and remained there for 2 weeks. Jenny was discharged from hospital and bringing her home without our little baby was one of the toughest experiences of our lives. I knew Jenny would be an amazing mummy and it felt so wrong to be leaving hospital with our tiny baby behind. Travelling up and down to the hospital each day delayed the feeling that we had become parents and that we had our little family. The same emotions every day of going home but leaving her behind. 

Thankfully we only had to experience this for a relatively short period of time as Layla was discharged 2 weeks later. There were families and babies who had been in for a much longer period of time and that is where we saw the amazing support offered by Tiny Life. I would like to raise some money so they can continue this support for other families.

Thanks

Mark