{"id":273111,"date":"2022-07-28T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=273111"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:06:13","slug":"premature-cyprus-uk-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-cyprus-uk-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature baby born in Cyprus flown to UK after crowdfunding campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A British family has finally been able to return home with their premature daughter, born while they were on vacation — and the happy reunion is all thanks to a crowdfunding campaign and a charity ambulance service that the grateful parents describe as “mind-blowing.”<\/p>\n

Bethany Cleathero and her husband Jan were vacationing in Cyprus, when Bethany unexpectedly gave birth to daughter Molly premature, at just 25 weeks pregnant. Molly was put in a neonatal unit in a local hospital, which was an hour away from where her parents were staying. While Jan eventually had to return home to England, Molly and Bethany remained behind, with rising medical bills and no safe way for them to leave. They decided to set up a crowdfunding campaign in the hopes of securing some financial help for their daughter. The campaign far exceeded their expectations, and they raised \u00a330,000 (roughly $36,000). They also received charity services from the Lucy Air Ambulance for Children, a private hospital plane that was able to transport Molly from Cyprus to the United Kingdom in an incubator.<\/p>\n

Jan explained that much of the money raised will go to repay the ambulance service.\u00a0\u201cI am so thankful to my friends for finding out about Lucy Air Ambulance. We want to work with the charity to repay them because ‘thank you’ is not enough,” he told Derby Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Molly’s aunt, Megan Harris, told ITV<\/a> that the ordeal has been challenging for the whole family, but that they were overwhelmed with all of the support.<\/p>\n

READ: Premature baby weighing just one pound saved with \u2018kangaroo care\u2019 from mom<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n