A heartbroken mother has revealed how she dreams of the day she can finally take her baby daughter home after the little girl spent every day of her life in hospital.

Tiny Matilda Bowcock has been under the care of specialist doctors from the moment she entered the world following a planned Caesarean delivery in November last year.

Now five months old, Matilda has already undergone 14 operations, including major heart surgery, and remains in hospital as doctors continue to monitor her complex condition.

For mum Loren Bowcock, 28, the emotional toll has been overwhelming.

“I just want to bring my baby home,” she said. “Sometimes it doesn’t even feel real. It’s like something you would only ever see on television.”

The family’s journey began during what should have been a routine 20-week pregnancy scan.

Like most expectant parents, Loren and her family were excited to see their unborn daughter. Instead, they received devastating news. Doctors discovered Matilda had Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA), a serious congenital heart condition in which the two major blood vessels leaving the heart are reversed.

“You never go to your 20-week scan expecting there to be something wrong,” Loren recalled.

When Matilda was born on November 18, doctors acted immediately.

Just 30 minutes after entering the world, the newborn was transferred to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where specialists were waiting to begin treatment.

The separation was heartbreaking for her mother.

Loren was unable to hold her baby girl for the first five days of her life.

“It was devastating,” a family member said. “All she wanted was to cuddle her newborn daughter.”

Within hours of birth, Matilda underwent a septostomy, a procedure designed to improve blood flow through her heart. More surgeries followed as doctors worked tirelessly to give the little girl the best possible chance.

At only 12 days old, she underwent open-heart surgery — a procedure most adults would struggle to imagine facing.

Since then, hospital rooms, medical equipment and specialist care have become the only world Matilda has known.

Meanwhile, her older brother Harley, 11, and sister Mya, seven, continue waiting for the day their little sister can finally come home.

Despite months of uncertainty, Loren says Matilda continues to amaze everyone around her with her determination.

“She is stronger than anyone knows,” she said. “Every day she keeps proving how brave she is.”

While doctors have not yet been able to say when Matilda will leave hospital, her family remains focused on one goal — bringing their little girl home for the very first time.

“We don’t need anything fancy,” Loren added. “We just want to be together as a family under the same roof. That’s all we’ve ever wanted.”

For now, the family continues taking each day as it comes, celebrating every small victory and holding onto hope that one day soon, Matilda’s longest journey will finally end with a trip home.