Cancer mum Heidi Loughlin pens a goodbye poem to daughter Ally who died after being born early

Our beautiful girl

Yesterday afternoon our hearts broke in two.

For we had to say goodbye to you.

Our love for you is a beautiful haze

Even though you lived for 8 short days

We kissed you, we cuddled you, we tickled your feet,

And I know again one day we'll meet

Today brought a rainbow, the lightest of hue

And I wondered if it was sent from you?

Our beautiful daughter Ally Louise,

I whisper your name and it drifts on the breeze,

The pain in my body and heart and my soul

Feels it will consume me and leave me un-whole

Your brothers will honour you in all that they do,

We forever have 3 children, not just two,

I will try to heal for you, and my body unfurl

You'll be always beside me our beautiful girl.

Heidi Loughlin, the mother who gave birth to her daughter twelve weeks early to begin life-saving treatment for cancer, has written a moving goodbye poem to her baby who died on Saturday.

Ally Louise Smith weighed just 2lb 5oz when she was born last week.

Her mother was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer three months into her pregnancy but decided to forego chemotherapy to have her baby girl.

In the poem on her blog Heidi described the tie she knew her daughter as 'a beautiful haze'.