According to the grieving mother, Amy, at first, Charlotte was the twin who struggled the most, her mother said. But six weeks after their birth, Esme took a turn for the worse.

The mother said Esme had a large amount of fluid on her brain and her condition kept deteriorating.

She told the Mail: Explaining how she found out the devastating news that Esme would likely not survive, the stay-at-home mother said: “Esme had had a really bad infection but on the Friday we got told that her infection markers had come right down and we thought she was fighting back. Read the full story here ▶