A slightly grainy photo but they don't like you using a flash in Great Ormand Street's Peadiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). One of the low lights of their first year, and of 2009, was Amelia's week in PICU (more details here). This was taken on the Thursday (21/05) after she'd been admitted on the Sunday night. At this stage she's still on the ventillator and sedated. The following day they removed the tube and started reduce the sedation. She was home the following Tuesday. A very stressful week but an absolute turning point for Amelia who suddenly was full of beans, smiling and chuckling rather than breathless and wheezy as she had been before.

Bethany looking rather bored on the tube on the way in to central London the night before Amelia came home. We all stayed up there that night so that we could be around as Amelia came round. Thankfully Bethany went straight to sleep despite the strange surroundings of the room we stayed in.