Sophie Smith

special times with Jasper.

And even, you know, when he hit one kilo in weight and Ash bought a kilo of chocolate and brought it in and shared it around with all the nurses to celebrate.

And we had, you know, Ash was a big West Coast Eagles AFL supporter and it was the grand final.

And it was the Eagles versus the Swans that year and the Eagles won and Ash came into the hospital with all his Eagles...

Kits decorated the humidity crib and all the nurses were joking about this being absolutely terrible.

So we had this, you know, we had some really,

You know, some good times within the... But then Jasper started to struggle with his lungs.

And there were many difficult... There were many times when we were called back to the hospital in the middle of the night.

You know, we would get that awful phone call where the phone would ring in the middle of the night and they would just say, come quickly.

And we would literally...

we wouldn't even say a word to each other.

We would be from being fast asleep to being in the car within a minute.

We just... And then getting to the hospital and rushing in and trying to, you know, waiting for the lift and rushing in and not knowing what we were going to be met with when we got there.

And there were so many times when he... We'd get in and they'd say, oh, we...

we're not sure, we think this might be it.

And then Jasper would say, no, I'm not going, you know, I'm still here.

Yeah, we thought we'd always tell him about the times we had to rush in, and we thought that he was going to die, and then he didn't.

He proved everybody wrong, and there he was.

And so this happened probably three or four times.

And then when he was 58 days old, and it was always his lungs, it was always his lungs.