Victoria Newman

My 125 Challenge for Tiny Tickers

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Event: 1 in 125 Challenge, from 1 October 2022 to 31 October 2022
Participants: Donna Thatcher
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.

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I'm helping the 1 in every 125 babies born in the UK with a serious heart condition. Support me throughout October as I walk 125km with my little heart warrior to support all the tiny tickets out there. 

In April 2022 our little girl Isadora was born, and after several weeks of struggling with group-b strep infections, we could tell something wasn’t quite right. Dora struggled to gain weight and feed, had issues breathing/coughing and seemed to be hit very hard by mild infections. 

At 3 months old she was finally diagnosed with a large VSD, a form of congenital heart defect which means she has a large hole in her heart and at this point was already in congestional heart failure. 

It took 3 months of asking and pushing for us to get a diagnosis and Dora the help she needed. Thankfully, she is now doing much better, but we are still not out of the woods yet and open heart surgery is a very real future for us. Before Dora’s diagnosis we had no idea about how common chd is or what signs to look out for, if we had Dora might have gotten the help she needed sooner.

 I want to raise awareness for the 1 in 125 babies with a congenital heart defect by walking 125km with Isadora in October. Help us support all the little heart warriors out there! 

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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.

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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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