Sophie Smith

And then we've got people running in the Sydney marathon whose children started their lives in equipment donated by Running for Premature Babies.

We have people who were premature babies themselves.

We have people who are running in memory of their own babies who've passed away.

And that is something that I have...

It's been a great privilege over the years for me to be able to support, in some way, families who are going through the terrible tragedy of losing their own children.

And because just last week,

this lovely woman contacted me called Katia, who his little baby Enzo was in the neonatal intensive care unit.

And she had just received, he was 21 days old, and she knew that he was using equipment donated by Running for Premature Babies.

But she'd also received the devastating news that Enzo probably wasn't going to survive.

And she rang me and asked me to come up to the hospital.

So last week I went up to the hospital and I met Katia.

this beautiful little boy, Enzo, and I met his mom, Katia, and I was able to support them in some way.

Now, Enzo has since passed away, and Katia has already reached out to me to say that she wants to honor Enzo's life by supporting one of her premature babies.

And I find it quite amazing that in her moment of heartbreak, that she's already thinking about how can she, how can Enzo's spirit help other babies?

People have told me over the years how running in their baby's name to help other babies has actually helped them heal.

So on Mother's Day, I like to shout from the rooftops that I am a mother of five.

And right from the very beginning, I actually have a card on my bedside table that was my first Mother's Day card, actually.

And Ash wrote me the most beautiful card.

And he always did.

Every Mother's Day, Ash would write me a card from Henry, Jasper and Evan, as if they had written it.