The parents of Alfie Evans are preparing to stage a fresh legal challenge.
Tom Evans and Katie James will ask Court of Appeal judges on Monday to allow the toddler to continue receiving treatment at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
A High Court judge had previously granted doctors at the Liverpool hospital the right to withdraw the 23-month-old’s life support in late-February.
Alfie’s family took were similarly defeated last month when they attempted to take their son’s legal battle to the European Court of Human Rights.
Specialists had drawn up an end-of-life care plan which was endorsed by Mr Justice Hayden, who made the High Court ruling, on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people protested protested outside Alder Hey on Thursday evening in solidarity with the Bootle family.
Alfie has been treated on an undiagnosed degenerative brain disease since 2016.
His parents want to transport his care from Alder Hey to a Rome hospital.
“There’s no court order to say Alfie has to stay in this hospital right now,” Mr Evans told the BBC.
“The truth behind the matter is that me and Kate hold full responsibility and we can take him to our transportation van with full equipment with the doctors who have got full duty of care, and they are not allowing us so we are hoping that my solicitor is gong to spin the spoon and get us out.”