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Inspired by my teacup warrior, micro preemie, called Edie, born at 23 weeks gestation. ‘Edie Teacups’ is a clothing brand for premature and full term Nicu babies, who are currently at the Nicu or now at home.

09/04/2026

My wonderful boy - happy birthday. 🎈

If I could have thoughtfully designed you with all of your wonderful ways, it’s you and the ones you have I would have chosen. You light up our lives. You really do. You keep the house laughing and us all on our toes. The kindest, gentlest, most compassionate, caring, empathetic, handsome, silly,, spirited and smart little boy. A maths wiz, a fashion fanatic, Mr neat and tidy, break dancing King, wildlife FANATIC the owner of the best smile I have ever seen, and an adoring little brother, we absolutely adore you. From the moment you were placed in my arms it was as if I’d always known you and we’ve been wholly connected since. Best friends, kindred spirits and the one who has really gotten my sense of humour since he could understand the meaning of words. To see who you are growing into and who you currently are is magic, because you are pretty great. Harris, you make me happy and that’s all there is to it. Keep being you “true love..

Birthday celebrations that have gone on for a month but you well and truly deserve it.

Happy birthday darling boy.

Love Mammy x

Diane E Mardon John Mardon

18/01/2026

“IT’S MIRACULOUS REALLY”✨

Just before Christmas, after our charity’s Christmas party for the children, we visited the NICU where Edie spent the first four months of her life.

We haven’t been back there for about 6 years what with COVID, being busy with 2 children and being governed by school and their activities, so to be there recently saw me feel a whole spectrum of emotions.

As amazing luck had it, our wonderful Dr M was the consultant at the NICU that day. I couldn’t believe it. He was the consultant we had the most to do with during our time at the one we really got to understand and who got to understand us and who ended up being Edie’s named consultant. We absolutely adore this guy. He’s the best. A lovely nurse came to say hello, which was also really heartwarming. It was lovely to catch up with her and then she said, “Oh Dr M is in his office I’ll call him.”. She said to him, “nothing to worry about but there’s a very special girl here to see you.” When his face peered through the glass, I saw his beaming smile, and we felt the same. Just so happy to see him again. He automatically reached out to Edie with such familiarity, fondness and complete ease. As though she was one of his own. And I guess on some way she is. The relationship between NICU doctor, a doctor that has cared for your child when they couldn’t be sicker, all the way to complete health and for all that happened in between, is a relationship and bond you can’t really put into words. It runs deep. He talked about how incredibly sick she was and said, when looking at her now, “it’s miraculous really. It’s miraculous.” To hear him say that just reminds me about what we sometimes forget given that we see her every day.

Seeing him was my highlight of Christmas. ❤️

12/12/2025

Two excited children for Christmas Jumper Day at school 🎄❤️

13/09/2025

World Sepsis Day 2025.

Possible trigger warning ⚠️

Today on I want to share this picture of Edie at I’ve said it before but this is the picture I hate to look at most. This is Edie with (for the second time. She had it several times) at around 14 days old where she still would only have been 26 weeks plus 1 day gestation. Already with a brain bleed, pneumonia, chronic lung disease and a whole host of other s**t storm health issues, she contracted sepsis again. As if she wasn’t going through enough. Born with sepsis at 23 weeks and many other health issues, being born in poor condition and simply being a she wasn’t expected to survive, though in those first two TERRIBLE weeks she was impressing everyone with her will to live. This time in our lives was awful. Already terribly sick, it was Sepsis, on top of all she was going through that was the thing to almost took her from us. On this day, a doctor took us into the family room at the to ask us to consider the possibility of ending Edie’s care. I’ve never been sadder, more lost and in despair. But thankfully Edie, with a great deal of medication, equipment and medical expertise, somehow found the strength to pull through. Believe me, doctors, medicines and technology, although undoubtedly vital, are not enough. Survival cannot be done without strength, determination and will. Each day I thank my lucky stars that Edie beat sepsis. I don’t know how she did it, especially dealing with all else because many don’t overcome this horrendous condition. One saving Grace is that she was at intensive care where it is not uncommon and the professionals know what signs to look for.

In the UK 5 people lose their live to sepsis every hour.

There are 48,000 sepsis related deaths each year.

There are 11 million deaths globally each year.

And yet there is still not enough education and talk about sepsis. It’s still relatively unknown. Too many people still don’t know the symptoms and signs of sepsis.

Find out more on my stories.

Ask yourself

03/09/2025

Blwyddyn 4 & Blwyddyn 1 here they come 💙💛

Such mixed emotions for me today and generally in times like these. I like having babies in my arms and while I love seeing them grow and prosper I’m acutely aware of how fast time is going.

Edie’s first day at nursery school feels like yesterday. The four of us walked her there in September 2020 and I distinctly remember reassuring myself with, “it’s ok Nic you’ve still got a baby in a pram. It’ll be ages before he starts school” and here we are - the baby in the pram just started year 1.

Edie was full of nervous excitement going in. She’s been there long enough to know that all will be well but had butterflies about the new teacher and not being with her old one. Harris was really quite apprehensive today. He dies surprise me sometimes. He was worried about the whole year 1 thing. That sounded like a big deal to him and he didn’t quite know what to do with that. He was nervous about a new teacher and how to find his class. He turned back to look at me at the school gates with a worried look but very stiff upper lip and the teacher took his hand and walked him to his class and all was fine. As boisterous and wild he can be it makes you realise how vulnerable he still is.

To the two of you, I couldn’t be more proud. Keep on being the kind, empathetic and inclusive children that you naturally are and keep trying your best, that’s all I can ask of you both and people and life will be drawn to you as they already are.

We are very lucky to have the two of you. X

I’m going to start a new tradition (for my own benefit (wish I’d done it sooner -

Harris wants to be when he grows up - a zoo keeper with an assistant to clean up the poo “because I don’t like cleaning poo”.. 🦓 🐘 🦁 💩 ❌
Edie wants to be when she grows up - a Doctor or a scientist 👩‍🔬 👩‍⚕️❤️ 📚✏️

PS look at the way she’s holding his arm in photo 4. 😂

18/07/2025

First day of year 3 and reception and the last day 🥲❤️

Time is going way too quickly for my liking and I really don’t like it but I’m so proud of these two. Two wonderful school reports telling us how hard the work and how well they’re doing but more importantly, how kind, inclusive and supportive they are. What a lovely year this was. Now get us on that ship 🚢 We’ll done kids. I’m proud of you ❤️

28/05/2025

Happy should have been birthday my amazing, wonderful girl.

It’ll never not blow my mind that you were due to be born today, 8 years ago, 28th May, but you actually arrived on 2nd February.

Born 116 days early and still you’ve managed to laugh in the face of I don’t know how you’ve done it but I’m so happy and grateful that you have. In your short life you have achieved so much and you inspire and give hope to and others all over the world.

Happy due date Edie. I love you ❤️

Edith Carmen Madoc-Jones
23 weeks plus 4 days gestation
580 grams
109 days at

All of Edie’s due dates so far ❤️

20/05/2025

I am so emotional.

Thank you for providing the incubator, for the eye tests, for the equipment used to operate on Edie’s eyes, for the other scanning equipment, for keeping Edie happy and entertained during her many visits to Noah’s Ark, for making her feel special every time you see her, for making her better and keeping her well. And us. And all the endless rest.

Having a very sick child is every parent’s worst nightmare. It’s a club no one wants to join, but there we were. And now, well now, we are a family who feels very privileged to be amongst these other families, with these very brave children, these warriors. To stand with them carries an immense sense of pride, and to have gotten to know the talented, hard working, charismatic, kind and creative women who carry this charity on their back is no less of a privilege.

Happy 25th birthday Noah's Ark Children's Hospital Charity. We are so proud of you. Thank you. Love forever, Edie Teacups and us ❤️ Kathryn Fisher Bethan Simmonds

12/05/2025

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY 🤍

This year on I want to talk about this here wonderful human being, our beautiful nurse Katie.

Katie looked after Edie during her sickest days at and we can’t praise or thank her enough. If my memory serves and I could be wrong obviously but I think Katie didn’t look after Edie straight away. Maybe a week had passed, and I recall that uncomfortable feeling that comes when a new face greets you and says they’re looking after your baby. A new person you have no choice but to trust. It’s hard. Especially when your child is fighting for her life. You don’t have the skills needed and leaving your new born child behind simply goes against nature. However, it literally took seconds to trust and love Katie. She was clearly talented and capable but also very calm and collected. At least that’s how she seemed on the outside, and that’s what worked for me. I was the type to feed off visible stress and I didn’t get that from Katie. She was motherly to Edie. Something I needed. She say things like, “Alright babes”, and I’d be happy that that would be the type of language Edie’d hear through the night. Because I knew that’s the type of thing she’d here from me for the rest of my life, if she lived. It’s the way I speak. Katie seemed to look after Edie mostly during the night and Edie worked her hard. She also liked to poo a lot for Katie, seeing her have to scrub that incubator 🤦🏻‍♀️ Katie often left us little notes. She was our type of person with a great, dry sense of humour and was so down to earth. You can respect the talent and know how of a great but you can’t force chemistry and that’s what we had - great, natural chemistry. Talent and expertise is what a parent wants but if you can have that chemistry too then it’s just magic. Katie left to travel and her leaving made us genuinely sad. She had been gone weeks and and we kept in touch. A few weeks later and another nurse told me that Katie was panicking on the other side of the world because she hadn’t heard from me. A wonderful nurse who didn’t only care for Edie because she was getting paid for it. Kate, we love you babes

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