{"id":25286,"date":"2025-03-19T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/she-isnt-the-baby-we-had-before-holiday-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:45:35","slug":"she-isnt-the-baby-we-had-before-holiday-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/she-isnt-the-baby-we-had-before-holiday-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"‘She isn’t the baby we had before holiday collapse’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The family are facing the prospect of a long recovery for their daughter<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The parents of a 19-month-old girl who suffered a brain haemorrhage while on holiday in Mexico have told how she is “not the baby we had before” and is yet to start walking or talking again.<\/p>\n

Sienna-Rose, from Liverpool, collapsed in Cancun<\/a> and underwent life-saving surgery before being flown home following a \u00a3150,000 fundraising appeal.<\/p>\n

Her parents Liam and Natasha said they were now coming to terms with their daughter’s long-term recovery at the city’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Natasha said: “She was so bubbly, she was so full of life. What I’m looking at now is my daughter with a completely different personality.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She continued: “Her journey starts now. It could be months, it could be a year. It’s like having a newborn again.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got our baby [but] she’s not the baby we had before this happened. I don’t know this baby, I love her so much but I don’t know her.<\/p>\n

“She can’t walk, she doesn’t talk, she just points at things she wants.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sienna-Rose “was so full of life” before her collapse on holiday, her parents said<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The family told how they had “been to hell and back” after Sienna-Rose became ill two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

She had been playing in the family’s hotel apartment with her two older brothers when she collapsed.<\/p>\n

They then faced a struggle to bring her home<\/a> amid complications with insurance, before strangers raised the money for the 11-hour flight.<\/p>\n

Her father Liam said: “We were having a fantastic time and we were in the room playing.<\/p>\n

“The baby just collapsed to the floor and was stiff. It was like I was frozen in time.<\/p>\n

“She wouldn’t cry and a couple of minutes later she started vomiting everywhere.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sienna-Rose and Natasha returned on Saturday night before moving to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Liam said they ran outside and took a taxi to the nearest hospital, which was about an hour away, with Sienna-Rose remaining “completely frozen”.<\/p>\n

“She was lying there, lifeless in the back of my arms in the taxi,” Natasha said.<\/p>\n

“I said she’d just winded herself, but I knew it was bad. She couldn’t open her eyes, couldn’t speak.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Liam said the family had been having a “fantastic time” before Sienna-Rose suddenly fell ill<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The family said Sienna-Rose only received all of the treatment she needed after they had been to four hospitals.<\/p>\n

The first asked them to pay \u00a34,000 up front, which they did not have, while the second did not have the scanners to diagnose her.<\/p>\n

Doctors at the third hospital told her parents she had suffered a bleed on the brain, but they did not have the facilities to treat it. <\/p>\n

Sienna-Rose was was then moved to a fourth facility for treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They couple said they were grateful for all the support from well-wishers<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“I remember thinking, ‘she’s got a brain bleed, she’s dying now’. I knew she was dying,” Liam said.<\/p>\n

Natasha added: “She’s progressing but she’s very unsettled, but they think that’s just her brain adjusting and healing.<\/p>\n

“We’re just finding it hard to come to terms with what’s happened.”<\/p>\n

The family said they later learned their travel insurance would not cover Sienna-Rose’s 5,000-mile (8,047km) journey back to the UK, which required special medical equipment, because they had mistakenly failed to disclose a previous unrelated overnight hospital stay.<\/p>\n

The parents said they took full responsibility.<\/p>\n

“It was our mistake and there is nobody else is to blame but us. We totally understand it was our mistake,” Natasha said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sienna-Rose will remain under observation at Alder Hey<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Natasha’s sister-in-law quickly set up an online fundraising page which raised \u00a370,000 overnight and later much more.<\/p>\n

“I can’t thank everyone enough, there’s too many people to mention,” Liam said.<\/p>\n

Natasha said: “It just gave us hope. I was thinking, we’re not going to get home. No one’s coming for us.”<\/p>\n

Lia’s Wings, a charity that flies home critically-ill children, eventually stepped in and organised the flight they needed.<\/p>\n

Sienna-Rose and Natasha finally returned on Saturday night and she was transferred to Alder Hey, where the family were greeted by a crowd of well-wishers.<\/p>\n

“I just felt my legs give way,” Natasha said.<\/p>\n

“Even now, I’m so grateful but I’m finding it hard to come to terms with what we’ve been through.<\/p>\n

“You don’t ever think in your life that you’re going to go through something like that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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