Mum's lost baby keepsakes turn up at recycling centre - 13 years later
Catherine Tetley thought the items were gone forever
A Liverpool mum has been reunited with a number of baby keepsakes - 13 years after they went missing in a house move.
The lost items were a framed baby scan, a hospital bracelet, a lock of hair, and a baby tooth.
Last week, an appeal was put out by Liverpool Council, after staff made the discovery at a recycling centre in Old Swan, while filtering through waste to ensure as few items as possible go to landfill.
Based on feedback from public, it was clear the ID band was from the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and child born around 2005/6.
Staff at the Women’s then went to work - trawling through their archives - and incredibly found the mum and reached out to her.
Catherine Tetley and her now 16-year-old daughter Macy were reunited with the precious items outside the hospital this morning (Friday 25th November).
Today also marks the second anniversary of the death of Catherine's dad:
“It must have been written in the stars.
"I’d given up all hope to be honest when I realised we’d lost these. To then be told the other day they’d been found just knocked me for six. It’s my Dad’s anniversary today & it just feels like he’s looking down on us.”