A father who lost his baby daughter to a medical condition has taken on a huge cycle ride in his determination to prevent similar tragedies.

David and Parminder Rogers lost their daughter Jasmin after just 18 weeks due to complications from a condition called severe foetal growth restriction.

The condition meant Jasmin was born early at around half her expected weight and was delivered at home in the couple’s shower room in an unexpected breech birth.

The breech meant that Jasmin’s head got stuck during delivery causing her to suffer from oxygen deprivation and she died in March last year.

Now David is determined to prevent a similar tragedy from happening to others and cycled 420 miles from his home in Bounds Green to Harrogate to raise money for neonatal charity Whittington Babies and the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy.

The ride, called Jasmin’s Journey, took the cyclists through the Yorkshire Dales where the baby girl’s ashes are scattered.

Having arrived in Harrogate on Friday David and his companions, including his brother, had to contend with temperatures well into the thirties during their trip.

David said: “It was a great ride and it was great fun but it was very warm, monstrously hot, I think I must have drunk my own body weight in fluid.

“The heat was a big problem, we had been planning this for months but you can’t legislate for something like that.”

The Whittington Hospital, which provided anti-natal care to Mrs Rogers and is where Jasmin should have been born, has now adopted a new scheme called the Jasmin Project to try and spot babies that are not growing properly in the womb.

Mr Rogers said: “I didn’t know what neonatal or antenatal meant until I had stepped onto the wards and they are a bit of a Cinderella part of the NHS which don’t get enough money.

“Charities like these are not as fashionable as some others or as high profile but the work they do is fantastic and they are both really great causes.

“There’s no right or wrong way to grieve but for me this has all been part of the grieving process and it was cathartic for sure. When something catastrophic like this happens it’s about turning it around and trying to prevent it happening again.”

Under the Jasmin Project new growth charts will be introduced to check if a foetus is a healthy size with the aim of reducing complications and still births.