Remembering Casey, by Jade Ellerby

To lose my only daughter at the last moment was, without a doubt, the most traumatic event of my life.

Christina's baby Torin died soon after he was born on 17th August 2020.

Sarah's little boy Reuben died when he was 2 days old. She helped set up Unexpected Parenthood with other bereaved parents and also established a new Hereford Sands support group.

Laura's daughter Penny was stillborn in 2016. After struggling to find support she set up Unexpected Parenthood and more recently, Hereford Sands.

Carrie Waddingham, from Leeds, received support from Sands after her twin babies died when she was 16 weeks pregnant in 2018, due to twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP sequence), a rare condition of monochorionic twin pregnancies.

I was lucky enough to benefit from Continuity of Carer in my first low-risk pregnancy in 2013 as my hospital then offered it to first time and home birth mums.

I woke up on 24th April 2019 just like any normal morning it was 6:30am I turned 39 weeks on this day and remember phoning my mum to tell her I would be getting the sweep that day and I

On 6th June, 7 years ago, during a routine midwife appointment, I passed comment to our (amazing) midwife that I hadn't felt the baby move as much recently.

We found out we were expecting twins in December 2018 and due August 2019! Went for my 12 week scan and found out that our twin A had a birth defect, called Encephalocele.

I found out I was pregnant at 24+6. I hadn't planned a child, not with a long distance relationship with someone in the forces.

This was just another normal pregnancy everything was fine I had the smallest bleed and went into hospital I had a scan, everything seemed fine, some routine checks all ok but they deci

The story of Milan is so surreal, I was told at the Nuchal scan, that I should terminate my baby because she wouldn’t live any longer than a week, or somewhere along the line she would