Yahoo News Charlie Gard's parents fight for final wish to allow son to die at home
The distraught parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard are hoping that they can have their final wish to let their son die at home.
Connie Yates and Chris Gard want to give their 11-month-old a bath and place him in the cot he has never slept in after ending their legal battle to take him to the US for experimental treatment.
The pair have told Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) that they will fund a mobile ventilator unit and a team of medics that would be needed if he was to go home.
Ms Yates, 31 from Bedfont, south west London, previously said: “We chose to take Charlie home to die. That is our last wish.
“We promised out little boy every single day that we would take him home.”
Mr Gard added: “We want to give him a bath at home, sleep on the sofa, put him in a cot which he has never slept in but we are now being denied that. They even said no to a hospice.”
It is not yet known whether GOSH will allow this to happen.
Lawyers representing the hospital and Charlie Gard’s parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital are due back in court today.
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The judge who has analysed litigation is scheduled to oversee a further hearing in the case in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
A case listing gives no clue about issues Mr Justice Francis might be asked to consider.
On Monday, the couple said they wanted to “spend our last precious moments” with Charlie.
Ms Yates said she did not expect her son to live until his first birthday on August 4.
Bosses at Great Ormond Street Hospital have not said when Charlie’s life-support equipment will be turned off.
Mr Gard and Ms Yates had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that Charlie should be allowed to undergo a therapy trial in New York.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street said the therapy would not help and that life-support treatment should stop.
The couple abandoned their legal fight on Monday after concluding that Charlie had deteriorated to the ”point of no return’’.
Ms Gard told the court: ”We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won’t make his first birthday in just under two weeks’ time.
”Mummy and Daddy love you so much, Charlie, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn’t save you.
”Sweet dreams, baby. Sleep tight, our beautiful little boy.”
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