Ormskirk mum's vow to help others after baby girl's death

When Ami Boyd and her partner Mike made the heartbreaking walk with their six-week-old daughter to the hospital mortuary, they naturally wanted to protect her dignity while treasuring those final moments. Just hours earlier, Flossie Bilboe had died after suffering a bleed on the brain caused by an undiagnosed rare genetic disorder called Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). "When we walked from ITU [Intensive Therapy Unit] to the snowdrop suite, which is where the mortuary is, we had to walk Flossie through the hospital," said Ami, 34, from Ormskirk in Lancashire. "The snowdrop team did clear out the corridors at the time to make sure that there wasn't anybody from the public. "But, at the time, I remember feeling like somebody could walk out at any moment and see her. "I was trying to shield her from people seeing her dead." As Flossie's second birthday approaches, Ami has vowed to make sure something positive comes out of her daughter's death, on 3 September 2024. She has been inspired to fundraise for a privacy pram, which has an extended hood to allow babies to be transported around a hospital discreetly. "It might sound like such a small thing, but when you are living

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