By Courtney Eales & Zahra Khaliq
A EuroMillions winner has told of the horror moment her newborn's pushchair collapsed with him inside, leaving him fighting for his life.
Ceri Roscoe-Roberts had just strapped her eight week old son into his pram while she prepared his bottle, when his 18-month-old brother came into the kitchen to try and get her attention. She said: ''I followed him through and all I could see was the pram and the hood of the push chair covering him so I thought 'oh you silly boy' why is this over? But when I moved the hood back the pram was faulty, it was deemed to be faulty after and the front end of the pram had collapsed.''
The mum-of-four was horrified to find the top half of her son's body "suspended and hanging", while the bottom half was still in the pram. As Ceri was alone in the house at the time, she was forced to resuscitate the newborn herself. And when she called an ambulance, two arrived because a neighbour also called 999 to report ''a woman screaming.'' Her son was taken to Bangor Hospital in North Wales, before being transferred to Alder Hey children's hospital.
For the first time since that traumatic event 16 years ago, Ceri and her husband Paul returned to Liverpool to contribute towards a major transformation project. Ceri, 43, and Paul won £1m on EuroMillions in November last year and were joined by other lottery winners including Nigel Mather, from Cheshire, who won £12m on the EuroMillions in 2010. The pair were part of a team of National Lottery winners helping to plant colourful flowers outside the Alder Centre - a bereavement unit.
Ceri continued: ''I am truly honoured - thanks to my National Lottery win - to be back here today giving something back in terms of my time and contributing to a project which will really benefit thousands of people for many years to come.'' She praised Alder Hey children's hospital for saving her son's life. Ceri said: ''They did a lot, he was on life support here for seven days while they were trying to find what the issue was they had to bring specialists from London.'' The mum said coming back to the hospital for the first time was ''quite traumatic'' but she feels ''really blessed and really lucky'' that she was able to take her baby home.
The team of lottery winners were involved in a project which will hopefully bring smiles to the faces of everyone who visits the hospital and a lot of hard work and planning has gone into it as each person picked up a spade and got to work. Fiona Ashcroft, CEO at Alder Hey Children's Charity said: ''We have been extremely grateful to have the lottery winners on site, they have certainly done an excellent job and played a very important part in developing our Children's Health Campus here at Alder Hey.''' Meanwhile, Ceri says her son is now doing well and is getting ready to sit his GCSE's.