Anything for Ava
Mar 12, 2020
4 minutes
Vera Twomey, County Cork
As her big blue eyes met mine for the very first time, I just knew.
There was nothing that I wouldn’t do for this baby girl in my arms.
Minutes old, but she’d already changed my world.
It was November 2009, and I’d just given birth to Ava. My husband Paul and I were already totally in love.
Back home, motherhood was everything I’d hoped.
Then, one night when Ava was four months old, her body stiffened and her arms and legs began to tremble.
Her eyes were shooting from side to side.
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