Personal stories
Whilst dropping my husband off at work one morning I sat in the car with tears rolling down my cheeks. The baby had been awake all night, I hadn't slept for weeks and I had a whole day alone with my 3 month old baby. I sobbed all the way to his work and when it was...
Grief has been explained to me in many ways. One picture that stays in my mind is the one where it simply starts at one stage, goes through many others and ends in another. If only it was that simple.... Next to this one, is what I think represents it in a better way,...
People may think , oh all she ever goes on about is baby loss this baby loss that. Others may accept my passion for it , but not quite understand. I will try to explain . When I lost my boy, it was probably the most lonely time in my life. I felt that no one could...
Mike, one of our trustees, writes about his and his wife’s experiences of loss for Baby Loss Awareness Week. Over the past three years, my wife and I have suffered three miscarriages. Our experience is by no means unique. The slogan of Baby Loss Awareness...
My husband and I have been together for 10 years and married for two. I had wanted a baby from a very young age, but I knew I had to finish university and start my career first. The time was right, and we started trying for a baby in February 2019. We got pregnant the...
When my husband and I chose to start our family, initially everything went pretty textbook - it took us 6 months to conceive and it was a fairly normal pregnancy. I went overdue - then at 41 weeks, started experiencing contractions... after 4 days in labour my...
I was 32 weeks pregnant when I started to bleed... I’d been here before with my first child… I knew it was placenta previa before I had even had the diagnosis. It wasn’t a large bleed, but I decided to head to the Women's Centre where I would get checked out,...
"I'm sorry there's no heartbeat" - the worst words you can hear at 41 weeks pregnant. It happened to us and the next morning I delivered our beautiful stillborn daughter Elsie. They say that when a mother loses a child they lose a part of their self too, no truer word...