‘I'm so grateful for the ad – it saved Joel's life’ Alex McHugh, 33, Wigan
Rush, rush, rush... it was time for the school run. ‘Let’s go!’ I called to my hubby, Stephen Mannion, 40, scooping up newborn Joel.
Octopus arms would have helped!
It was 21 January 2016 and, strapping Joel into the baby seat, I jumped into the car to collect Tom, 10, my boy from a previous relationship, from school.
As Stephen buckled up, my mind wandered back to September 2015.
I’d been 26 weeks pregnant, when I’d decided to have a 3D baby scan.
‘Let Mum go with you, love,’ Stephen, a mechanic, pleaded. ‘It’d mean so much to her.’
So, I trundled off to the scan shop in Wigan, with my mother-in-law Christine Mannion,…