We're going back to hospital to say thanks for saving us

KARRIE Walls has no memory of the day her daughter was born.

When tiny Olivia arrived in the world, two and a half months premature and weighing just 2lb 1oz, her mother was unconscious and fighting for her life.

Yet today both mother and daughter are in fine health – and planning to visit the people who brought Olivia into the world with a very special gift.

Now ten years old, Olivia has just raised an incredible 1,300 for the special care baby unit at the Simpson Memorial Pavilion, which saved her life – and which was named after her great-great-uncle, the groundbreaking obstetrician, Sir James Young Simpson.

Mrs Walls said pre-eclampsia symptoms had developed gradually through her pregnancy, before suddenly turning into the potentially fatal condition, eclampsia.

The illness forced doctors to carry out an emergency caesarian, Mrs Walls said: "When Olivia was born I wasn't awake because I was in intensive care, so I didn't even know that I'd had a little girl. I woke up after about two days and a little picture appeared on a screen above my bed and they said 'That's your daughter,' and I thought 'Wow'."