Rachael Fleming, 38, lives in Ellesmere Port on the Wirral with daughter Liliana, two, and son Leonard, 15 months.Trusting her ‘mother’s instinct’ about baby Lennie led to the shocking discovery that he had cataracts - a health concern that affects around three to four in every 10,000 babies born in the UK.
Here, the doting mum-of-two shares her story and explains how going with her gut feeling was the best thing she's ever done... “There it was again.
Leaning over Lennie’s cot, I noticed a little white fleck, right in the centre of his pupil. I was mystified. Was it a trick of the light?
But as the days passed, it seemed to get a little bigger. “Maybe I’m just worrying about nothing,” I tried to tell myself, as I scooped him up for a cuddle.
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