Melissa Hodge

My 125 Challenge for Tiny Tickers

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Event: 1 in 125 Challenge, from 1 October 2022 to 31 October 2022
1 in 125 babies born in the UK has a serious heart condition. Take on The 125 Challenge and help them. There's so much you could do in 1 month - 125 things to be exact! Walk 125 miles, bake 125 cakes. And make a BIG difference for tiny hearts.

Story

Jack was diagnosed with a Congenital Heart Defect when he was 8 weeks old ❤️

At 4 weeks old he was taken via ambulance to A&E with increased work of breathing and recession. Although an x-ray showed some slight changes, all his other observations were fine. It was thought to be reflux related so we went home.

4 weeks later his breathing was still the same and something didn’t sit right with us so we decided to take him back to hospital to get checked again. He was checked by 3 different doctors and it was the 3rd who heard a murmur. Another x-ray and an ECHO were done and that’s when they found that Jack had two holes in his heart, a PFO and a VSD. 

His next scan will show if they have shrunk or if he will need further treatment, but for now, his twice weekly visits from our amazing Neonatal Outreach team and daily medications are helping him thrive.

Approximately 1 in 125 babies in the UK are born with a heart problem, with less than half of them being picked up during pregnancy. 

If we hadn’t gone with our instinct it may not have been detected for much longer & could have been a lot more serious.

I have decided to do the 125 challenge and walk 125 miles in October to raise money for Tiny Tickers, a charity that help improve the early detection and care of babies with serious heart conditions. If you can spare any money big or small, it will go a long way 🥰

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1 in 125 babies born in the UK has a serious heart condition. Take on The 125 Challenge and help them. There's so much you could do in 1 month - 125 things to be exact! Walk 125 miles, bake 125 cakes. And make a BIG difference for tiny hearts.

About the charity

Tiny Tickers

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A baby is born with a serious heart condition every 2 hours in the UK and despite congenital heart disease being one of the biggest killers of infants, less than half of these conditions are picked up during pregnancy. That's why Tiny Tickers exists, to give these babies a better start in life.

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