I have two daughters, and with those pregnancies, I had no complications. So, I was shocked when I found out I was pregnant again, 11 months postpartum. My husband and I were excited, but I wasn’t sure how far along I was. At my first OB...
I tried to process the words coming out of the doctor’s mouth, but all I could focus on was the first sentence she said, "We couldn't find a heartbeat". The world as my wife and I knew it came crashing down. No more building a...
Our Angel Jacob is our loved and cherished firstborn baby. He was stillborn at 31 weeks due to COVID, which had infected my placenta and blocked blood flow to him. The day after I finished isolating, I noticed reduced movements so we went to hospital....
Baby Loss Awareness Week has won Campaign of the Year at the 2025 GLOMAMA Awards. This is the second year in a row that BLAW has received the award, which is the result of a public vote. Carolyn Bray was one of the co-founders of BLAW 23...
He may not say it, he may not show it, he just isn’t programmed that way But his heart is broken, and he too carries the grief, through every moment, of every day He lost his baby too He wipes away her tears, then when no-one’s around he...
In December 2020, my wife and I found out the devastating news that our baby had stopped developing and that my wife would need a medical intervention to terminate the pregnancy. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions, I wasn’t even able to attend the hospital when...
At 36 weeks pregnant I woke up one morning and couldn’t feel my baby move. He was often less wiggly in the morning so I gave him a while and then phoned MAU who said to lie on my left side for 2 hours. I...
I lost my daughter on 22/05/15, due to the fact that she had a heart deficiency, two weeks after I got married to my now ex-husband. My whole world was turned upside down when I longed for a child/children for many years. My first and only...
"Her grave is my safe place to connect to when I’m struggling." Elsie is 18 and experienced two miscarriages, Lyra at 11 weeks and Lionel at 4 weeks, when she was just 16 years old. Elsie wants to share her story to show that younger mums who...
Our story began in at the end of 2020 when we decided to come off contraception and ‘see what happened.’ I very quickly became pregnant, and we excitedly booked a private scan for the beginning of March 2021, when I would be 9 weeks. However,...