‘She needed a heart sooner’: Mother’s plea as baby Alice’s story highlights organ donation crisis

Majella Spang shares her daughter Alice’s story in the hope of raising awareness about the desperate shortage of baby organ donors

Majella Spang beside a spread of photos of Alice. 'She had the doctors baffled so many times because she fought so hard to live.' Picture: Larry Cummins

As Alice Aurora Spang took her last breath, her heartbroken mother begged the baby to look at her before she passed away.

But in those last few precious moments, the 10-month-old tot, who had battled heart failure since birth, stared past her mother before slipping away as she lay between her parents on a hospital bed.