Poppy Hope Davies
Date Of Birth: 24th of August 2023 Poppy was diagnosed with a left sided diagrammatic hernia at our 20 week scan. It was something we had never heard of and we were devastated and filled with so much worry and uncertainty. CDH UK sent a wonderful welcome pack and the information provided was extremely helpful […]
Kevin Wilke
Date Of Birth: 2008-05-15 My son Kevin Wilke born 15th May 2008 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow. Kevin was born with CDH which has been repaired. Also diagnosed with Fryns Syndrome (we are looking for families that have a love one with Fryns Syndrome)
Toby Clegg
Toby was born full term by c section with an undetected right sided hernia, despite having scans every 2 weeks. After life saving surgery, Toby has been left with no lasting complications and at our last appointment he was in the 97th percentile for weight and height. He is a miracle. Our miracle. Words can’t […]
Roman William Hill
Here is our brave warrior Roman and his CDH story. A boy with a right sided diaphragmatic hernia with a type C defect and 11% chance of survival. We found out that our baby had CDH at 35 weeks (December 2022). We had gone to visit a birthing centre as this was where we were […]
Amelia-Rose Levi Perry
At 19 weeks pregnant we got the CDH diagnosis and we got told it was severe. After weeks of testing and appointments we got told she would be unlikely to survive and I wouldn’t make it to full term. However out daughter proved everyone wrong and at 39 weeks she came into the world screaming […]
Finley
Finley was diagnosed at our 36 week scan. It had been a pleasant pregnancy up until then! I was terrified, Finley is my first child and the odds weren’t looking too great. We were told it was 50/50 that he would survive at birth. There was a team waiting when he was born and he […]
Ruairi, Niall, and Jack
Ruairi, Niall, and Jack( my son ) all born in August/September 2000 and had surgery in Royal Belfast hospital for Sick Children. Date Of Birth: 2000-09-25
Georgia Leigh K Turnbull
Georgia was born a healthy baby. We went on holiday to Cyprus just after her second birthday. She took seriously ill and required CPR from her daddy! Upon arrival at Pathos hopsital she had a pneumothorax, this was drained instantly. She was transferred 2 hours alone to Nikosia Children’s hopsital where she was diagnosed with […]
Laura
After a tough, tiring, 26hours labour, the consultant decided to perform an emergency caesarean section. Fortunately, I had had an epidural to control the pain, so I was topped up and conscious through the operation. At 04.44 my daughter was born, and what should’ve been a lovely experience, became incredibly traumatic. The theatre staff were […]
Natasha Bailey
We found out that Natasha had a left sided diaphragmatic hernia at the 20 week scan. She was born four weeks early at UCLH before being transferred at two days old to Great Ormond Street Hospital and had an operation to repair the hernia at three days old. The repair was a success, however Natasha […]