Baby Sarah loses her therapist and her smile

OUR daughter Sarah was born on the September 21 last year in Cork University Hospital. Within three days she was transferred to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin.

She has been in the excellent care of the nurses and doctors there since then. With heart problems which are life-threatening and having recently undergone a tractotomy, she has been in intensive care for five-and-a-half months.

Recently, though, she was transferred to a transitional care unit (TCU) where the ultimate aim is to bring Sarah home. In the TCU, Sarah and the other children receive daily physiotherapy and play therapy to improve muscle tone and to encourage them to use their hands and start to do normal baby activities. You should she see the smile on Sarah’s face when the play therapist appears at the door.