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...
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...
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...
I'm 22 and have recently lost my first baby to a late miscarriage. My pregnancy was going well, there were no known complications detected at my 12 week scan, and I was having a low-risk pregnancy.At 17 weeks and 5 days, I began to experience...
Friday 31st May 2019 at 20 weeks and 3 days I gave birth to the most beautiful sleeping baby boy. I will never forget those words the midwife said to me when she told me my baby no longer had a heart beat. Our exciting faces...
I had my first baby, she was born healthy and we were over the moon. We then fell pregnant about a year later - that’s when I was told I had Chronic histiocytic Intervillositis (CHI), and our little boy was born sleeping at 25 weeks;...
When we found out that I was pregnant in October 2021, we were both excited and ever so nervous. As this was my first pregnancy I didn't know what to expect. I had a perfect textbook pregnancy, however, a few times I had a little niggle...
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....
My beautiful daughter died in 2014 at Great Ormond Street Hospital from a rare heart condition. She was 89 days old. Since her death my life has changed irrevocably and the stepping stones taken in a daily basis are always done with her beside me. The pain doesn’t...
2022 marks 20 years since the beginnings of Baby Loss Awareness Week. We’re proud to share the story of one of its co-founders, Marion Currie, who is a Database Co-ordinator at Sands. The following is a transcript an article that was published in the Daily Record in...