A MUM is fundraising for neonatal intensive care units after an "incredible team" helped her son have the best possible start to life.

Siani Driver, from Malvern, set up the GoFundMe page to raise money for the NICU departments at Worcester and Birmingham's hospitals.

The statement on the page reads: “Dylan Driver was born in a storm under a full moon on February 9, 2020.

“He was born in the water at the end of a wonderful planned home-birth, after which, everything went a bit wrong.

“He wasn’t breathing and had no heartrate. Daddy and the attending midwives resuscitated him, and he was rushed to Worcestershire Royal Hospital by ambulance, where he was ventilated, cooled, given anti seizure medication, and rushed again to Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham where he was placed in the NICU.

“We were told he’d suffered oxygen starvation and his brain had been damaged.

“Initially, his EEG showed no activity and his consultant suggested that she wanted to stop the cooling process early, and remove his life support.

“She planned to take him off the anti-seizure drugs to see if they were suppressing his brain activity, but that she didn’t expect to see any change.

“She was wrong. The following morning he had some brain activity and she decided to keep him on the cooling process for longer.

“He was then able to be moved back to Worcester NICU and everything changed.

“He became a lot more alert and annoyed by his breathing tube, and by the Saturday was determined to have it out.

“We swallowed hard, dug deep and decided to trust him that he could breathe. His tube was removed, and - he did it. He breathed.

“He’s now putting on weight, moving, looking around, crying – doing all the things an average baby does. He’s undeniably got some brain damage and will likely be affected by that to an unknown degree in the future, but he’s been given the best chance of having a great life, thanks to the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Heartlands and Worcester NICU.

“These people are absolute angels. Working under immense pressure with very few resources, they do 12-hour shifts without complaint, and the love they show to the little ones in their care is so hugely reassuring.

“Over the two weeks we were in hospital, they all made us feel so cared for."

The mum-of-three has already raised £hit her £1,000 goal, to split between the two neonatal intensive care units.

To donate, see gofundme.com/f/dylans-nicu-fundraiser