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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is our son Joshua who was born 13 and a half weeks prematurely, weighing just 2lbs in July 2009. He was given just a 60 per cent chance of survival. In the traumatic weeks that followed, Joshua spent 107 days in three hospitals, in three different counties enduring a collapsed lung, six blood transfusions and four infections. He was ventillated at birth, stopped breathing once and was on oxygen until a week before he finally came home</span></span><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">.</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #0d91a3; font-size: 38pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nearly 3 years later Joshua is a happy toddler and is doing well despite a couple of weeks in hospital along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a terrible time for all the family but thanks to the fantastic care he received in the three hospitals he is here today.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In hospital we were introduced to the charity Bliss which campaigns for Babies born too soon, too small or too sick. Bliss, the special care baby charity, provides vital support and care to premature and sick babies across the UK. Founded 30 years ago, they offer guidance and information at a critical time in families' lives.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">They also fund ground-breaking research and campaign for babies</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">to receive the best possible level of care regardless of</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">when and where they are born.</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">One in every nine babies in the UK is born premature or</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-RomanCondensed;">sick. That is over 80,000 babies every year.</span><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold;"></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-BoldCondensed; color: #008ab0; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Humanist521BT-BoldCondensed;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">So now we are doing the 3 Peaks Challenge in aid of Bliss!</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><span style="font-family: Apple-Chancery; color: #231f20; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Apple-Chancery;">Nicky, Neil & Joshua Emsley</span></em></span></p>
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