Some days, he doesn’t feel like he’s mine,’ mum Shannon Everett admits of her young son, Nico.
That’s because seconds after her baby boy was born, her entire world changed forever.
Shannon’s heart stopped beating for a staggering 68 minutes.
Her last words were: ‘I love you, Mummy’ – a comment directed at her beloved mum Nicola, 46, who’d been in the room with Shannon and her fiance, Ioan, as she gave birth.
‘First she told her fiance she loved him, then me, and I replied: “I love you too, baby,”’ Nicola recalls of that fateful day.
‘Then suddenly I realised Shannon was unconscious. There was noise from all the machines and the room was instantly filled with doctors and nurses. I was just holding her head, telling her to…