Before she was born, Mari Glyn's parents knew that the road to getting her into the world would be tough. She was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called congenital chylothorax, and needed specialist treatment in St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol. Mari was born to parents Bethan Wyn Evans and Carwyn Evans at just 31 weeks gestation and weighed a tiny 3lb 10 oz, but her real weight was closer to 1.
5lbs, as the condition she had meant there was excess fluid around her brain and lungs. It was "touch and go" as to whether Mari would make it. Bethan, from Llangunnor in Carmarthenshire said: “We had a really tough time there to be honest, it was touch and go whether Mari would pull through or not.
But after five or six weeks she started to turn a corner for the better, and that’s when they told us they were preparing to get us back to Wales.” READ MORE: The £2.49 sun cream that passed sun protection tests with flying colours READ MORE: Mum recalls moment she knew 'it wasn’t good news' when husband didn't come home When Mari no longer needed to be cared for at the hospital in Bristol, she was moved to Swansea's Singleton Hospital instead.
However, that hospital was still 40 minutes from the parents' home town, and they dreaded spending so much time away from her and travelling each day. Fortunately, they were put up in Swansea Bay Health Charity's Cwtsh Clos, which provides accommodation to families in the grounds of Singleton hospital for parents of babies in t.
