Her grandmother Pamela, told the 'Journal' yesterday: "We're now heading over for two weeks. Things are improving very well, she did have the wee lung infection which the doctors said was to be expected, but that's clearing up now. She's out in her wee pushchair and all.
"We're still waiting to see how she does. "I don't want to keep saying the same thing but the people of Derry and the surrounding areas are still donating money and we just want to say a massive thankyou because it really means a lot. Stephen (Ava's dad] does all the phoning and he sounds so happy, every time I ask him where Fiona is she's always in the ward with Ava. They stay with her from 7.30am until 8pm, but thank God the three of them are doing well."
Members of the public who wish to donate to the Nixon family can do so through a fund set up in Ava's name at the Alliance and Leicester building society at the Diamond, or by donating to the family home at 26 Marianus Park, Hazelbank.