Natasha Elizabeth Copeland

This wee page is set up i memory of our baby daughter Natasha Elizabeth , Natasha was born at 6.55am on the 20th april and fought hard to stay with us until sadly her wee strength had gone she found it too hard to stay and she fell to sleep at 5.55am on the 24th april ! Natasha was the first born child of mark and michelle and was a very much wanted child .

Natasha has got 2 younger brothers cori n mitchell who were so unfortunate never to have met ther big sis but i do remind them every day of her and they are very aware that she was born .

Natasha died from what is not well known as Meconium Aspiration Syndrome and for those who dont know wot that is , its when a baby preparing for birth goes into feotal distress during the birth and they inhale the fluids known as Meconium my poor wee baby went thru that !!!



November the 19th 1992 i found out that i was pregnant with my first baby and being 17 i was very shocked and thought how can i do this but with all the support my mum n mark could give me i got there and was so lookin forward to having her , my pregnancy went fairly normal no hitches so preparing for the birth me n her daddy wer so excited , i was act scared of what was in front of me but nothing was to prepare me for what i went thru !!!!

Sun the 18th of April i wasnt felling to well and sort of knew it was going to happin i went to bed earli onli to b wakened durin the night with pains not that bad though so i didnt get my mum up i timed them and went to the doctors , she told me i was in labour onli for my labour to stop that afternoon bout 3 then to return at 6 that time very fierce , Went to the hosp onli to be told i wasnt in labour , but i knew myself that i was !!! u just know but they told me that i had to take a sleepin pill and put the tens machine on which did abs nothin for me ! i went to sleep obviously with a tablet in me id no choice , what was to happen next was the worst thing ever i woke up a 3.30am with pains that bad i couldnt even walk and had to get the nurse she tried to get my Natasha's heartbeat and there was none so all panic set in and i was rushed into delivery , Now after havin lost her heartbeat once they perceded to wait until they lost it another 2 times before they sect me . Natasha was born and was barely alive.



Thats were it all began i didnt even know that my daughter was ill because i was so sick after havin had the operation that they couldnt tell me , i didnt find out till after half two that day because i had come round a bit !!! right away my main concern was to see my baby onli to be told that my baby was very seriously ill and would probably not make it thru the nite ! u can imagine how that felt i just assumed that my child was well .


So comes half 6 that nite and my friend cum to c me onli to be interupted by a nurse telling me that Natasha had takin a turn for the worst and was prob not goin to get thru the nite . The minister was called and Natasha was baptized so so sad that was to have to go thru . For 4 days we had to pray that pray that our wee daughter was goin to be ok but sadly not and we had to agree to turn of her life support machine .

I do genuinely believe that if they had operated sooner and not neglegted me and my child she would still be here but having thoughts like that will never bring her back !!!