Credit: SWNS / Nicolette Somers<br /><br />A mum has penned an emotional letter to the organ donor who gave her 'the best gift ever' of a heart transplant just days before Christmas - to enable her to enjoy her first festivities with her new baby.<br /><br />Nicolette Somers, 30, was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) - a rare form of congestive heart failure associated with pregnancy – in October 2020, three months after her son Beckett, now one, was born. <br /><br />Although doctors initially hoped they’d be able to treat Nicolette for the condition, she was eventually told she would need a heart transplant – or she would risk missing her newborn son grow up.
