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...
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...
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...
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, Carolyn Bray, who is the Assistant Director of Income & Engagement at Sands. The following is a transcript of the article that was published...
I realise it isn't your typical 'this is what happened to me' story. But I wrote this when I returned to work last year, following the death of my eldest twin Henry who was born at 24 weeks, and I would love to share it...
We’re lucky - we have a gorgeous, wonderful rainbow, an amazing miracle amidst the losses. An early miscarriage shattering our rose tinted glasses, followed soon after by a missed miscarriage with painful medical management. And then a year of trying before an anxious, never relaxed pregnancy...
I'm gonna be a father! It was the morning of the 21st of November 2020, I believe it was a Saturday when I was lying in bed, half-asleep. My girlfriend Lisa got out of bed to go to the toilet. A few moments later, I heard...
The television was loud and the children were laughing; I was surrounded by activity but I felt I was all alone. Suddenly my heart sank and I knew instinctively something was wrong. My heart started pounding, the palms of my hands were clammy and I could...
Sarah and James de Malplaquet's son Kit died on the 29th September 2017 when he was just 13 days old. HSV1 or herpes simplex type 1, the virus Kit died from, is the same virus which causes cold sores in adults. Sarah and James set up...