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Dear Purple

Hello

Signing petition now.

Take care of yourself

Very best wishes
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hi have just signed the petition
god love him
how awful for his parents and him the poor wee mite
broke my heart to read his story xx

I did it last night, Lisa sent me the address.

Hi Lisa....

Poor baby, what did that poor girl feel like, and how will she EVER get over the dreadful feeling of utter powerlessness?
Deanna X

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Dianne, I don't know how the nurses or doctors could let this happen, I thought their job was to save lives and/or ease pain and preserve dignity. No dignity for this little mite and others like him.

Lizx

Your very welcome Liz
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I've just been and signed Liz. I was so angry with the doctors when I read this story.

Dianne xx

thanks Lisa

I have just signed the petition set up I think by jaydens mum and have asked my friends to do the same.
I have also joined the group that has been set up on another site.
I really feel for Jayden and his family, it is such a shame that nothing was done to help Jayden when he was born.

n

This is very upsetting but this girl needs support for her battle.

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A Norfolk MP has pledged to take up a mother's battle with the Secretary of State for Health and demand changes to medical guidelines on when infants should be given intensive care.

Since Sarah Capewell told the EDP in September the heartbreaking story of how her premature baby died in her arms after doctors refused to help him because she was only 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy, her Justice for Jayden campaign to help other parents facing the same plight has taken off beyond her wildest dreams.

Her campaign put her in the national television spotlight on the This Morning show with Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield and a huge groundswell of public support has led to more than 17,000 people signing her petition on the 10 Downing Street website.

Now Yarmouth MP Tony Wright is backing her calls for a change to medical guidance, which currently advises against babies under 22 weeks gestation being offered intensive care, and will be urgently seeking a meeting with Andy Burnham.

He said the story of how Miss Capewell's son Jayden had lived for two hours, crying out and even reaching out to her, with doctors declining to examine him or put him in intensive care, raised question marks over adhering to a rigid 22-week limit.

Mr Wright said: “It is quite clear that all the statistics point to a child born under 22 weeks having only a very small chance of survival. However, as far as I am concerned, if a baby is born alive everything should be done to keep them alive or at least ease their suffering.”

The intervention of doctors would also reassure mothers that everything possible was being done to help their baby, he added.

Miss Capewell, 23, who lives in Crown Road, Great Yarmouth, with her grandparents and five-year-old daughter Jodie, is now asking the public to help her give fresh voice to her campaign by releasing a Christmas musical CD.

Touched by her Justice for Jayden website, a number of artists and songwriters have offered her songs for the album and a major record company has now offered to cut the CD and distribute it at cost price.

Miss Capewell, who will be singing a track called Never Be Healed, said: “I have loved singing since I was four so it seemed natural to use music to take our campaign to an even wider audience.

“A number of recording professionals who have listened to the tracks reckon that some could be big hits if they were brought out as singles.”

However, to realise her dream of releasing the record to support families who lose premature babies, she must raise £4,100 for the production costs by the end of the month.

She appealed for people to support two fundraising events she has planned - a fancy dress evening at Caesar's Bar, in Marine Parade, Yarmouth, from 7pm to 2am tomorrow and a charity show at the Pavilion Theatre, Gorleston, at 7.45pm on Friday, October 30.

Donations to the campaign can be made via the website www.justice4jayden.webs.com



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Lizx