‘Inspired By Kira To Help Others'
Yours|Issue 310

As figures reveal a rise in sudden infant death syndrome rates we speak to a bereaved grandmother who’s helping to support families and raising funds for research

Katharine Wootton
‘Inspired By Kira To Help Others'

Like all new grandmothers, Sue Shannon-Jones was overjoyed by the arrival of her beautiful granddaughter Kira, born on a Mothering Sunday weekend. While she was already a grandmother to her son’s children, this was the first child of her daughter and also the first grandchild local to her, with the others living hundreds of miles away. Sue also had the joy of being there when her daughter gave birth to Kira, an experience she described as, ‘incredible and miraculous’.

Eager to do everything she could to help, Sue invited her daughter Danielle and her partner Chris, along with Kira, to stay with her while the couple found their feet in the early days of parenthood. “It was a really special time,” says Sue, 68. “And I already had real life lots of plans for what I wanted to do with Kira when she grew up.”

But two weeks after Kira was born, the unimaginable happened when mum Danielle ran into Sue’s bedroom shouting that her baby wasn’t breathing. “As you can imagine it was all a bit of a panicky blur,” says Sue. “I tried to revive her and then my husband took over while I rang an ambulance. Following the ambulance on the way to the hospital I said, ‘I’m sure it’ll be alright now’.”

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