Laura Barker – Page 2 – Baby Loss Awareness Week

Author: Laura Barker

19 Sep

Posted at 16:20h in Stories by

In 2005 when I was 24yrs old my son at 9 days old died unexpectedly in my bed. I woke to his cold lifeless body next to me. We tried endlessly to revive him, and so did the paramedics and hospital staff. I quite honestly do...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:18h in Stories by

I lost my daughter Millie in 1999. I was only 22 when I fell pregnant and my scans up to 20 weeks were all normal and without alarm. It wasn’t until I got to 31 weeks and I hadn’t felt her move that I started to...

19 Sep

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We lost our son Brody on 25-8-17 when he was stillborn at 39+3weeks. The previous day my waters had gone and I went into hospital to be checked over and all was OK. I was sent home for labour to kick off and an induction...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:15h in Stories by

I found out I was pregnant in May 2015 - it was a complete surprise but we were so excited. Our 12 week scan went brilliantly and no problems were detected, however at our 20 week scan we heard those heart-wrenching words ‘there is no...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:12h in Stories by

In January 2018 I was rushed into theatre for what traumatically became life-saving surgery for myself to resect over 17 feet of my small intestine due to a volvulus. I was 7 months pregnant at the time with our daughter Isabella and tragically she lost...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:11h in Stories by

I was in the seventh month of pregnancy when most of the doctors told me that they did not see the baby's stomach on the ultrasound, but someone did. That gave me even more hope to carry the pregnancy to the end. On May 2, my...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:09h in Stories by

After waiting for almost two years for this pregnancy to happen, after so many prayers, tears, so many sleepless nights, hundreds of appointments and scans, tonnes of hormones and injections, finally our first-ever baby showed up on the pregnancy test. We couldn’t believe it, we...

19 Sep

Posted at 16:07h in Stories by

My name is Emma and I fell pregnant with my son in 2019. Our pregnancy was textbook and we just spent all of our time planning our future as a family. Two days after my due date contractions began, we called the hospital, loaded the...

18 Sep

Posted at 14:37h in Stories by

I had a missed miscarriage at 11+2 weeks pregnant. On 23/2/23 I heard the words nobody ever wants to hear, "I'm sorry there is no heartbeat". My whole world shattered in one second. I chose to have the surgical option and was booked in for...