"I became a mum in 2023, but my arms were empty. This year, I finally get to wrap gifts for the child who came home. It's a happiness tinged with grief"
Maddie Biggs once used Tiktok for sharing what she'd baked, where she'd been on trips and how she'd upcycled the occasional bit of furniture.
In September 2023, everything changed.
In a video watched hundreds of thousands of times, she shared clips of the utter devastation she and her husband faced when their baby, Teddy, was born prematurely and with a condition called congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).
"Basically, he had a hole in his diaphragm which meant some of his organs had risen to his chest cavity, and they were pressing against his lungs so his lungs couldn't develop properly," Maddie said.
