IS REALLY SCARY BEAUTIFUL AVA
she is never out of my mind,” she said.
“I might just be having dinner and it will pop into my mind about what Ava would be having.
“She loved music and would bounce around in the back seat of the car.” Zoe talks to Ava “all the time.” “Before she died I would sing to her,” she said.
“She loved to sing and she loved music.
“I sang her nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty and Twinkle, Twinkle.” Zoe fell pregnant again this year. “I’m expecting another girl in October,” she said.
“I’m excited but I have got mixed emotions.
“I don’t want to get it wrong. All parents blame themselves if something happens to their children. In the back of my mind that is how I feel.
“Everything just freaks me out, I’m really over-protective whenever they get a cough or a cold.
“The thought of a baby is really scary.
“It was a shock to both of us, we were not expecting it. But everything happens for a reason.”
Zoe is thinking of naming her unborn child Alaska. “I like the name,” she said. “It’s not something I would normally go for.”
This month her friend Sean Turner and 11 of his friends raised £5,031 for the Meningitis Research Foundation in memory of Ava.
That is at least £2,000 than they hoped for. Money is still coming in.
The 12 raised the money by climbing Snowdon, then running five miles to their bikes. From there they cycled 33 miles.
Then they ran more than five miles to the foot of Cadair Idris before hiking to the summit.
“We live in a small community and this tragedy has touched everyone in it,” Sean, 31, said.
“It’s also made us very aware of meningitis and septicaemia.”
Zoe sent “lots of love” to the fundraisers.
“It means so much to know she will never be forgotten,” she said.
A spokesperson for Hywel Dda Health Board said: “We are unable to comment on the detail of individual cases other than to say that we have launched an internal investigation into this very sad case in order to review the circumstances and standards of care provided in detail.
“We have been in regular contact with the family and the findings of the investigation are being shared with the family and services involved initially.
“We continue to offer Zoe our sincere condolences during what we know continues to be a very difficult time.”
To donate to Sean Turner’s fundraiser visit www.justgiving. com/fundraising/Sean-Turner6