Stories – Page 6 – Baby Loss Awareness Week

Your Stories

Here you can read about the experiences of bereaved parents, family members and friends affected by pregnancy or baby loss.

 

We are very grateful to everyone who has shared their stories of loss with us and they help us to raise awareness of the issues surrounding pregnancy or baby loss, and also help other bereaved parents and families to feel less alone.

I never knew pain until I woke up from my emergency c-section at 30 weeks and was told my baby died. Life has changed in so many ways forever. My relationship with his dad ended because I went down a black hole. To say the least I...

  We lost our only child, to necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), aged seven weeks. Our daughter had also been diagnosed with a life limiting genetic condition at a prenatal screening. Almost 4 out of every 5 babies born with full Trisomy 18 don't make it to one year. Sarina...

2016 was the year. My husband and I decided we were ready to try for a child. Having already had a four-year-old daughter, we were keen to give her a sibling. We were in good health and were happy, so it really felt like a...

My name is Katie, here is my story: I was pregnant back in 2018, after losing a baby prior it was worrying. However everything was perfect. I went to my 20 week scan, although very anxious, everything was going well. We decided to do a...

Eddie and I made the decision to try for our much-wanted family and by March 2019, I was pregnant. We were both so happy. Having supportive families, we told them early on. Naturally I was a little anxious but nothing prepared us for the journey we...

I suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 2016 which resulted in surgery to remove my baby and fallopian tube. I had no symptoms other than a speck of blood and was told when mentioning it to a midwife that it was probably implantation bleeding and was nothing...

Sophie was my third child and my first daughter. We very much wanted a little girl to complete our family. Back in 1982, scans were only done if there was any problems. I had a very good pregnancy, no problems at all. When I was 40...