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Speaker 1: Sitsy and with her with Kate Ritchie Podcast.

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Speaker 2: We've got a very special story today of a family.

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Speaker 2: Lauren and Bond have two beautiful children. Lola's only fifteen

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Speaker 2: months old, but Ayla's three years old. Ali's had a

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Speaker 2: pretty tough time to the point where Lauren she's been

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Speaker 2: in situations where she's been holding her daughter Ayla, and

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Speaker 2: she's completely stopped breathing.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is confronting.

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Speaker 1: We are very frightening and not not knowing what's going on.

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Speaker 2: It's happened six times. She cannot sleep at night because

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Speaker 2: she's worried her child is going to stop breathing. This

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Speaker 2: family has just been living in a life of stress

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Speaker 2: and anxiety for the last three years and a lot

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Speaker 2: of surgeries, a lot of diagnosis that haven't been picked

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Speaker 2: up yet, and they're doing it really, really tough. So

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Speaker 2: why don't we give Lauren a call now and see

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Speaker 2: how they're going.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Lauren, now are you hello?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: That's fun?

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Speaker 3: Well, Christmas, Bond, Bob are there?

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Speaker 2: They are these This is ah She's gorgeous. And then

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Speaker 2: we got Lola in the background too, have we.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, You've got your work cut out for you.

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Speaker 2: You guys have had a pretty tough three years, haven't you.

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Speaker 2: It's it wouldn't be a fun thing when you see

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Speaker 2: your poor little baby stop breathing. No.

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Speaker 5: So, by five months old, Ala had had been in

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Speaker 5: ambulances about six times. I haven't slept a night through

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Speaker 5: since she was born.

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Speaker 3: How did you first discover what Aila had? Which was

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Speaker 3: which was a hole in her windpipe? Is that correct?

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Speaker 5: A hole above the wind fight?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 5: So, at six weeks old, she wasn't feeding properly and

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Speaker 5: I was trying to bottles. I just stopped breastfeeding. I

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Speaker 5: was trying to different bottles. But I noticed she was

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Speaker 5: going blue around here, and I kept taking to the

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Speaker 5: children's hospital and I said, no, she's just reflaps. I

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Speaker 5: was like, something's not quite right. And then she'd like

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Speaker 5: make this choking noise, like horrific, and a lot of times, yeah,

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Speaker 5: she went completely blue.

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Speaker 1: We had to call it.

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Speaker 5: We spent the first year of her life in hospital.

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Speaker 5: And it wasn't until she was five months old when

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Speaker 5: she completely stopped breathing and they found that there was

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Speaker 5: a whole above in fight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, no kidding, you can't sleep through the night.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, parents feel like this anyway when

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Speaker 1: they when they don't have the issues that Aila has had.

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Speaker 1: But what what was your fear that she would stop

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Speaker 1: breathing in her sleep?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that she was going to die. I did.

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Speaker 5: I We've got her on an outlet at night, so

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Speaker 5: I'd often watch her desatur rate and go below eight

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Speaker 5: in have in the middle of the night, take it

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Speaker 5: to the hospital and she'd be put on feeding tubes

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Speaker 5: sometimes and oxygen and things like that. She had a

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Speaker 5: first big operation at five months old, so literally no sleep.

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Speaker 3: Lauren, can you take us back to twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: You're at Parramatta Westfield and she stops breathing, So you're

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Speaker 3: in a shopping center, people everywhere.

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Speaker 2: What do you do?

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Speaker 3: And what happened?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 5: I had Ala on my on my up here holding

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Speaker 5: up and I was actually getting a birthday present, and

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Speaker 5: she wasn't drinking, she wasn't eating nothing, and I heard

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Speaker 5: this noise come from her mouth and then dead silent.

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Speaker 5: It's called a laaringl spasm, so it's where the airways

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Speaker 5: completely closed. I screened out to the person at the register,

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Speaker 5: I was like, my baby's not breathing. Portugal sirup, Oh

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Speaker 5: my gosh, I started to do birthdays.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: I was doing backlows, no response, and I was like,

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Speaker 5: here we go. I'm going to have to do CPR

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Speaker 5: to the ambulance.

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Speaker 4: Keep here.

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Speaker 1: Just hearing you say my baby's not breathing. It's just

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Speaker 1: so incredibly frightening.

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Speaker 3: To think that instantly she went limp in your arms.

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Speaker 5: Lauren, Yeah, there was there was nothing. She wasn't there

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Speaker 5: was nothing, she was lifeless.

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Speaker 3: Did you say, did you begin CPR?

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Speaker 2: Lauren?

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Speaker 5: Adam began CPR. It all happened very very quick. The

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Speaker 5: ambulance was there already at the shops, but I don't

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Speaker 5: know what for, but it happened very quick, so they

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Speaker 5: I was getting ready to You've.

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Speaker 2: Had a rough few years. You're a teacher, so you've

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Speaker 2: had to give up your job to focus on Ala

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Speaker 2: full time. Is that correct?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I can't really leave her as you can imagine

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Speaker 5: if your child's going blue and you don't want to

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Speaker 5: leave them with anyone.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't have bonn Aron as well. Because Bond's working

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Speaker 2: six days a week as a Brookie, isn't he Yeah he.

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Speaker 5: Is, so he worked very hard. You know, he's had

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Speaker 5: to have a lot of time off because of hospital.

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Speaker 5: Ayla was recently in ICU and she was incubated, so

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Speaker 5: she's on life support for a big operation and she's

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Speaker 5: got one more to go, so he had to have

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Speaker 5: the whole week off. But most of the time I'm

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Speaker 5: by myself.

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Speaker 2: Your story is unbelievable and obviously you know you do

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Speaker 2: this for your children. Anyone would, but what you're going

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Speaker 2: through and that constant fear of not knowing if your

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Speaker 2: child is okay. We just wanted to tell you, Lauren

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Speaker 2: that we've got your back, and we wanted to look

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Speaker 2: after you guys. And the reason why we got you

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Speaker 2: on today because we just wanted to tell you that

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Speaker 2: we've got four thousand dollars that we want to help

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Speaker 2: you cover the cost for aila surgery. Oh my god, yep.

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Speaker 2: And we've got you so much. And we've also got

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Speaker 2: return flights and accommodation to the Gold Coast, a family

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Speaker 2: passed a dream World and Mike water World. So you

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Speaker 2: guys can just have a bit of a break yourself,

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Speaker 2: take the kids up there forget about work, bonn, and

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Speaker 2: just look after each other, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Thank you thank you so so much.

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Speaker 3: Oh so much.

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Speaker 5: We need a break. Last hospital operation, we watched her

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Speaker 5: oxygen go from one hundred ninety two to eighty to

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Speaker 5: sixty and I was like, God, she's dying. And then

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Speaker 5: they were fantastic. There was twenty people in the room, nurses, doctors,

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Speaker 5: they were working on. So the last operation has really

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Speaker 5: sugars and to get away and not have to worry

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Speaker 5: about the housework, cooking, nothing. We just thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm just reading the detail here, Fitz.

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Speaker 3: Did you mention the koala enclosure and the cuddle and

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Speaker 3: the tiger feeding and the dingo experience, the crop feeding experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Say hi, hi, my beautiful girl, Ayler. Can I

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Speaker 1: ask you something?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How much do you love your mommy and daddy?

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Speaker 4: Good? All, my goodness, that is a lot. That is

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Speaker 4: a lot of lover. Do you love your little sister Lola?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? We thank you guys enough, Thank you so so much.

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Speaker 3: Make sure you send us some peaks.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I definitely will check on.

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