The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) I it’s where 80,000 babies, ill or premature, are admitted each year,! desperately needing medical help 1 as they battle for survival. It’s an unlikely place for friendships to form but, in the summer of 2008, four women met in one such unit at Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset. Despite being strangers before the birth of their children, they not only grew close but came 1 to rely on each other for support. Six years on, they share their harrowing experience…
I could let my guard down with them all
Joanna Hebbard,38, works for a funeral director. SheandhusbandKevin, 45, livein Minehead, Somerset, withsonLouis, seven, and non-identical triplets Jessica, Megan and Katie, six. The girls were born four weeks premature on 4 August 2008. Jessica weighed4lb11oz, Megan…