‘You feel guilty for wanting a donated organ’ – Bristol mother

Leo was born at 38 weeks by C-section and everything seemed fine.

“We were just in heaven,” said Claire.

But about four weeks after he was born, Claire said she had “felt something wasn’t right”.

Despite being told it was normal because he was breastfeeding, she noticed Leo’s bowel movements were green.

“I didn’t feel like it was [normal],” she said.

As well as this, “he was just getting yellower and yellower”, she said.

Claire felt something was wrong and pushed for more intervention from doctors.

Five days later, Leo was admitted to hospital. He was then transferred to another hospital for a transplant four or five days later.