A toddler who collapsed and suffered a brain haemorrhage whilst with her family in Mexico is set to fly back to the UK.

Natasha Sargeant, 31, from Croxteth, Liverpool, was left in turmoil after her 19-month-old, Sienna-Rose, fell ill on holiday last week. with children Harry, 13, Liam, 11, and Sienna-Rose when she fell unconscious at their apartment.

The "happy" girl was raced to and had to undergo an operation to remove a blood clot. Natasha said her daughter felt "unsettled" and "keeps grabbing her head" since the surgery. On Friday, Natasha said: "My partner and my two boys went home yesterday because there were no other returning flights until Monday. But we just need to remember she's had major surgery on her brain."

However, the little trooper has since made progress and is ready to fly home. It comes after her family managed to raise more than £150,000 after a campaign. Natasha and Sienna flew home on a medical repatriation flight in the early hours of this morning (March 15) with the help of Lia's Wings - a charity that provides air transfers for critically ill children.

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They will be arriving back in the UK this afternoon, . An update this morning on the GoFundMe page reads: "Sienna and Tash are currently flying back to their first refuel stop. I am sobbing from the relief of it all. I can't believe we did it angels. Without your donations this wouldn’t have been possible. We have all achieved something so amazing. Again thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You all helped save our little princess."

Family and friends will be greeting Natasha and Sienna-Rose outside Alder Hey Children's with a big banner to welcome them home. Addressing their return, Natasha said: "I can't believe it. I'll cry my eyes out when I see everyone there. We've spent the last week on our own, isolated. It's been horrendous so knowing that we're going home to so much support is heartbreaking.

"When my sister-in-law said she , just to help us with the cost of prescriptions and stuff while we're over here and taxis to and from the hospital every day. I didn't think it would blow up like this. We were expecting to be out here for six to eight weeks. We weren't expecting to be going home so soon because we knew the flight home would be a lot of money considering how far we're going.

"Within a matter of hours it just blew up out of nowhere. I've had people messaging me from and Wales and now it's just everywhere. It's just been surreal, how far it's reached out across the country." Sienna has a bed waiting for her at Alder Hey where she will continue her treatment and start rehabilitation. Doctors have warned the family that, as a result of the brain haemorrhage, Sienna will have to "learn the basics again".

Natasha said: "She'll have to learn to sit up and hold herself again, as well as walking and stuff. She was saying a lot of words before this and now she hardly says anything, just the odd word. It's heartbreaking to see but I'm made up that we've still got her here and we're not telling another story.

"She's been having Ensure drinks for the last 24 hours because she can't tolerate food. But she's managed to keep them down. So that's progress from a few days ago when we were expecting the worst. I can't even describe what we've been through, it's been horrendous. I just know when I get home and I've got the support there that'll be the time for me to just crash because I'll be that exhausted. Right now I'm just powering through. In the city when it comes to a child or a baby everyone sticks together, like Zoe's Place. It's just amazing. I can't thank everyone enough."