{"id":586258,"date":"2026-08-07T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:46:13","slug":"jesy-nelson-is-in-a-dream-after-daughters-have-feeding-tubes-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586258\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesy Nelson is in a \u2018dream\u2019 after daughters have feeding tubes removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesy Nelson is in a \u201cdream\u201d after her daughters underwent an operation to have their nasogastric feeding tubes removed.<\/p>\n

The Little Mix star\u2019s daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, were diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare condition that causes muscle weakness.<\/p>\n

The condition required Nelson\u2019s daughters to be given feeding support as part of their early medical care, but they had their tubes removed on Friday.<\/p>\n

Following the surgery Nelson shared a series of photos of her daughters in hospital beds, captioning one post: \u201cI got their face back feels like a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another showed her twins sleeping in beds next to each other, with Nelson also posting a photo holding a hair clip that read \u201cgood things are coming\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nelson, who had her twins with her former partner Zion Foster, posted a video of herself in hospital with Ocean and Story before the procedure to remove the tubes.<\/p>\n

Caressing her daughter\u2019s face, she said: \u201cToday is the big day. We\u2019re taking these plasters off, aren\u2019t we? No more tuby for you in your face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing her social media followers, she added: \u201cThey\u2019re going down soon. The bravest girls in all of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the singer shared a photo of her twins and said it was the last day they would use the feeding tubes.<\/p>\n

She wrote: \u201cToday is the last day of my baby girls having their tubes on their faces.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs terrified as I am about them having their operation tomorrow, I cannot wait to finally see their faces again and see their little dimples that are always hidden under these plasters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve honestly forgotten what it feels like to cuddle them and not worry about pulling their tube out of their nose or plasters off their face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is the littlest things we take for granted as parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GilesGiles Lomax, chief executive of SMA UK and Jesy Nelson ahead of an SMA screening debate in London. Photo: Jordan Pettitt\/PA.<\/p>\n

According to the NHS, SMA can cause problems including muscle weakness, difficulty sitting up, crawling or walking, problems breathing or swallowing, and bone and joint issues.<\/p>\n

Nelson\u2019s twins have Type 1 SMA, which begins in babies under six months old.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0revealed her daughters had the rare genetic condition in January, saying they are unlikely to be able to walk or gain neck strength.<\/p>\n

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Jesy Nelson says her daughters are ‘bravest girls’ as they have tubes removed<\/p>\n

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Since the twins\u2019 diagnosis, Nelson had been campaigning for the condition to be added to the newborn blood spot screening test as early treatment can help avoid some of its most devastating effects.<\/p>\n

The UK department of health announced in July that the national newborn screening programme for SMA will be rolled out across England as part of an evaluation programme from the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of babies will be screened as part of the simple, heel-prick blood test shortly after birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesy Nelson is in a \u201cdream\u201d after her daughters underwent an operation to have their nasogastric feeding tubes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-586258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}