A four-year-old boy from Mansfield has decided to raise money for Nottingham’s Hospitals Charity who helped him and his sister after they were born prematurely.

Both Finlay and his two-year-old sister, Darcie, were born prematurely because their mum, Nicola, has a rare condition called Rhesus Disease.

The condition means that antibodies in a pregnant woman’s blood destroy her baby’s blood cells, and result in babies being born with life-threateningly severe anaemia as well as experiencing jaundice.

After Finlay was born at just 5lb 4oz, he spent two weeks in the Neonatal Unit at QMC where he had a double exchange transfusion, where nearly all of the bodies in his blood were removed and replaced.

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