💜 SlapCityUK Charity Drive Out for Gloucester NICU x Hallie's Heroes💜

We’re proud to be hosting a charity drive out in memory of Hallie, a beautiful and incredibly brave little girl. Born at just 26 weeks and 5 days, Hallie weighed only 1lb 3oz and spent over 3.5 months fighting in Southmead and Gloucester NICU. Despite her strength and determination, Hallie sadly passed away on April 9th, 2020

To honour Hallie’s memory and support other families going through similar experiences, all donations from the drive will go directly to Gloucester NICU. The unit’s incredible staff provided Hallie and her family with exceptional care, creating special memories, including decorating her room as "Hallie’s Grotto" for Christmas—a gesture that meant the world to her family.

Join us as we drive for Hallie and raise funds for the NICU that gave her so much love. 💜🚗💨

More details on the drive coming soon – we can’t wait to see you there. 💜

Please see Hallie's incredible story below:

Hallie was born at 26weeks 5days at southmead hospital on the 11th June 2019, due to my health complications the pregnancy wasn’t very straight forward. Diastolic flow had reversed which meant Hallie wasn’t getting the nutrition she needed. I was rushed to southmead and Hallie was brought into the world at 22:43 by emergency c-section. She weighed 1lbs 3oz when she was born. Hallie was very poorly as she was so premature, she had to be intubated for 6 weeks as her lungs were very underdeveloped. Me and my partner had to wait 3 weeks to be able to have our first cuddles with Hallie because of how unstable she was. She was the put onto a ‘hi-flow’ machine which meant her lungs were getting stronger. We staying in southmead NICU for 3.5 months. September 2019 came and we were transferred to Gloucester, closer to home  Hallie was doing amazing, she was growing and we got to see her turn into a cheeky little trouble maker, October came around and Hallie was put in ‘low flow’ which is oxygen that we were able to take her home with, Hallie lasted about a day on the low flow but her lungs struggled too much and they had to put her in a higher oxygen support. We had a meeting with the doctors to discuss her having a tracheotomy fitted but at that time she was too small to have one, we was told to prepare for the worst, there was a 50/50 chance of survival. Obviously our little girl proved them wrong and she got a lot better. We had Hallie christened in the hospital, she wore the most beautiful gown and it was a lovely day for the family to spend this special moment together, we had the best Christmas in Gloucester NICU where all the nurses went above and beyond to make it so special for us, they moved Hallie to her own room, decorated it and named it ‘hallies grotto’ they had a little Christmas tree, tinsel, lights (which Hallie was obsessed with) and we had the most amazing day with her despite being in a hospital. Hallie was quite stable for a while and they even started talking about us taking her for a walk around the hospital grounds so she could see the outside, unfortunately this never happed as in February 2019 Hallie took a bad turn and she had a cardiac arrest. We was on our way in to see her and we had a phone call to get there as soon as possible. We’ve never ran so fast in our lives, when we got to Hallie she was on a table surrounded by nurses and doctors. We had to have another meeting with the doctors to discuss where to go from here, they spoke to Bristol and they talked about the tracheostomy again. And because Hallie was big enough it was a possibility. That day Hallie was moved to ICU where she was intubated again. We was going back to Bristol. PICU at the Bristol children hospital. Hallie was intubated for a few days until the managed to wake her up and get her back onto hi flow, Hallie seemed like herself again, we was giving her baths, playing with her and she seemed okay. The day we was meant to have a meeting about the tracheostomy procedure Hallie unfortunately had another cardiac arrest. But this time Hallie struggled to recover from this, she was put on the highest hi flow aswell as additional breathing support. They gave Hallie 48 hours to see if she would respond to the extra support but unfortunately she didn’t, we had to make the decision and think about what was best for our baby girl, on the 9th April 2020 we rang our family and friends and told them to come and say their goodbyes, me and Ben spent the day with our precious girl and we made foot and hand prints, hand and foot moulds and gave our girl her last bath and got her ready for bed. Hallie took her last breath at 6:10pm on the 9th April 2020 in mine and her daddies arms we are so lucky to call Hallie our daughter she was the strongest little girl I’ve ever known and I’m so so proud of her. We all are