‘We’re giving something back to the people who saved our son’
Alexa Broude, 41, lives in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, with her husband Daniel, 42, and their children Alice, 11, and George, eight.
Holding my newborn son George’s hand as he was wheeled from the labour room to the ward in his hospital crib, his skin was turning icy cold, his mouth going blue. ‘Something’s not right,’ I said to the midwife, and peering into his cot, she agreed. When she said she would get a paediatrician, a sense of panic hit me.
It was December 2015 and just four hours earlier my husband Daniel, then 32,
