A couple are raffling their home and helping to raise thousands for a charity after their baby was born weighing just a kilo.
Jade and Luke McLauchlin are aiming to give £10,000 to the Tiny Lives Trust after the raffle, which ends on Wednesday.
They want to move to Australia and are offering up their four-bedroom Victorian townhouse mortgage free.
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And they are determined to raise money for the charity that helped when their daughter Kilo was born - weighing just a kilo - in 2019.
Jade, of Gateshead, developed sepsis when she was pregnant and an emergency caesarean section had to be carried out at 26 weeks - 13 weeks prematurely.
The 28-year-old teacher said: "They had to do the c-section because there was a risk of the sepsis spreading to the baby.
"It was the scariest thing ever, not knowing what was going to happen and I was very worried.
"But they delivered my baby and the staff were wonderful. She was born weighing a kilo, she was tiny, and so we named her Kilo.
"She spent 10 weeks in the neonatal ward at the RVI in Newcastle and was on a ventilator. But as she got stronger, they started to wean her off.
"After that we were able to bring her home. We were very grateful to all the staff at the unit.
"That's why we wanted to raise money for the Tiny Lives charity. They work very hard to make sure babies and their families are as comfortable as can be in such a stressful situation."
The family, including Kilo, now aged two, and six-month-old Khaia, have been wanting to move to Australia for some time but the coronavirus pandemic delayed their plans.
They are now raffling their home - Kensington House, on Durham Road, Gateshead - with people being able to buy tickets for £2.
The raffle closes on Wednesday, August 25, which means there are only three days left for anyone wishing to get their hands on the property.
The couple need to sell a minimum of 150,000 tickets to be able to give away the house mortgage free and donate £10,000 to Tiny Lives. They have sold around 77,000 tickets so far.
If they are unable to hit the target, the raffle winner will still get a percentage of the cash raised, which on Sunday stood at around £109,500.
Jade said: "We have been wanting to move to Australia for a while now but it has been a long drawn out process because of Covid.
"The pandemic put a stop to the visa application process but things are changing now and we are hoping to be able to complete the process.
"If we are able to sell the minimum number of tickets we need, it would help make our dream come true of moving to Australia as well as raising money for a charity so close to our hearts."
More information and pictures of the house as well as raffle details can be found here.
