Loving AIDA

Staring at the inside of the hospital walls, I wasn’t expecting this was where I’d be on Christmas day, 2019.

I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself down and ignore how incredibly ill I felt.

I’d only just reached 27-weeks of my pregnancy and my partner, Jack, 24, wasn’t even allowed into the hospital to hold my hand.

After being told my unborn baby, Aida, was showing signs of reduced movement and heart rate, I was terrified of what was going to happen next.

It started with an incredibly bad flu which gave me sickness and a temperature.

But it quickly developed into sepsis in my kidneys.

‘Your right kidney is enlarged, and we need to drain it with a nephrostomy bag,’ the