With her due date just two months away, Andreia Perestrelo and her husband Marcio were excitedly planning for the arrival of their much-longed for son. The couple had lovingly decorated the baby’s room, complete with a nursery rhyme inscription on the wall that read, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, do you know how loved you are?” Their daughters, Luana, then 12, and 10-year-old Megan, had already hatched a plan for their new brother to sleep with them in their beds, while Marcio was in no doubt of the football team his son would support – his beloved Portuguese Benfica.
“We had so much prepared for him,” Marcio, 39, says. “He was going to be my superstar and future gaming buddy.”
Yet tragically, on 14 June 2017, their dreams were shattered when…