Help raise money for miracle baby Isabel from Verwood

Premature baby Isabel Dunning weighed just 830 grams at birth and following more than five months in the neonatal intensive care, she was diagnosed as severely disabled. The list is long and includes cerebral palsy, short bowel syndrome, cystic periventricular leukomalacia and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Little Isabel has already had three operations and is barely nine months old. She faces another op this year.
Mum Shelley Colclough says, “Over half her brain has been damaged and gone. We were told many times she wouldn’t have any quality of life and to turn machines off, but we always believed she was a fighter. We need to raise money for specialist equipment and sensory equipment.”

Shelley has set up a gofundme page where people can donate to help buy seating equipment, sensory toys, a specialist car seat and specialist bath. “Sadly the things Isabel will need throughout her life are easily going to rack in to the tens of thousands of pounds,” added Shelley. “We have another beautiful older daughter Chloe and we’ve tried to be a normal happy family, but it’s very hard on us all.”

Isabel’s father Andrew Dunning will be jumping out of a plane in April to help raise money for “our special miracle daughter” and this will be the first of many fundraisers.