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Baby Loss

'My world went into a spin when I was told at my 12-week scan that there was no heartbeat' - Mum shares her story of miscarriage 

My world went into a spin when I was told at my 12 week scan that there was no heartbeat and that I was having a silent miscarriage. I’d never even heard of a silent miscarriage. I was pregnant with my third child and I was thrilled as I'd always felt we would have three children. The doctor suggested I go home and let nature take it's course and come back after the weekend if it hadn't happened naturally.

'It hit us like a ton of bricks' - Presenter Alex Jones reveals she found out she had a miscarriage an hour before going on air 

BBC prsenter Alex Jones has revealed that she hosted 'The One Show' just an hour after learning...

'How I wonder what he would be like had he been given the chance to live…' - One mother's story 

Having lost a baby from miscarriage in November 1998, my husband Seán and I were delighted on March 19th 1999 to discover we were expecting...

'I am writing these letters to you as a bridge between us' - Dad shares letters he wrote to his late baby 

July 21, 1970.

'Why should you have to go through that on your own?' - Comedian Chris Ramsey opens up about the pain of miscarriage 

British comedian Chris Ramsey has opened up about the miscarriage that he and his actress wife...

'She did everything in her power to live' - Operation Transformation leader pays tribute to her baby who died at just five days old 

One of the leaders on RTE’s Operation Transformation moved viewers to tears when...

'After Poppy died, people wrote to me about suffering the same awful experience' - Gary Barlow on losing his baby 

Gary Barlow says his continued grief over stillborn daughter Poppy helps him to feel closer to her.

'It was utterly devastating - our baby had just died and he was still in Judy’s womb' - Richard Madeley 

British television presenter Richard Madeley – best known for the Richard and Judy daily chat show with his wife - has opened up about their...

'I just wanted to hold her' - Mum of baby who died at just 8 weeks old 

Arafa Musa lost her daughter Rahma two years ago at just eight weeks old.

'We lost six precious little babies who will always have a place in our hearts' - Mum-of-three 

I've just celebrated my 11th wedding anniversary. It's been a great 11 years and we've three wonderful children. People on the outside...

'You don't talk about it because it's too raw' - Zara Tindall suffered a second miscarriage before giving birth to daughter Lena 

Zara Tindall suffered a secret second miscarriage before giving birth to daughter Lena in June.

'We feel our baby Jesse is still very much with us' - heartbroken mum who lost baby in second trimester 

Not all twins walk side by side, sometimes one has wings to fly and this became true for our family in August 2008 when I experienced a heterotopic...

'I'd to phone my husband - thousands of miles away - to tell him' - Irish woman who lost baby at 31 weeks 

I am a mother, yet I do not know what colour my baby's eyes are or the colour of her hair. My child has a name and she existed on this earth as...

'She placed her hand on my abdomen and said: ‘I am so sorry but your baby has no heartbeat’' - Mother who lost her baby at 22 weeks 

Tuesday September 28th 2016 started as a normal day but for me but there was an added...

Novelist Emma Heatherington: 'The day before the scan, everything stopped. I had a miscarriage' 

I’m the first to admit that I never really understood the pain of miscarriage until just over two years ago, when it happened to me. It’s very...

'For ten years, this was my secret... I’m a mum to 18 angels' - Irish mother-of-one who suffered 18 miscarriages 

An Irish mother-of-one has opened up about her ordeal of suffering 18 miscarriages in the last...

'I feel broken. My perfectly healthy baby has died and no cause of death has been found' - heartbroken mother 

As I sat in the hospital room and held my stillborn son in my arms I never imagined that this would be my life.

'I lost several pregnancies over a period of six years' - mother tells her story of recurring miscarriages 

Miscarriage can be so raw, there can be so many questions left unanswered, and things never said, and sometimes that is just the way it is meant...

'It was at that moment that I broke. I sobbed and sobbed as my poor husband hugged me' - mother's heartbreak on losing her baby 

My name is Philippa, my husband is Enda. In 2012 we were blessed with our son Jack. All we ever...

'I understand that miscarriage happens but why me, why us and why again?' - mother tells her story 

October 14th 2013 and March 17th 2017 are dates I am never going to forget.

'The doctor turned to me and said so quietly 'I’m sorry, there’s nothing' - Mother who lost her baby at 41 weeks 

On Wednesday, the 16th of July 2014, I sat down at 10am to have a cup of tea and I realised I...

'Four days from my due date we had lost our baby' - mother describes agony of stillbirth 

My pregnancy was complication free. There was no reason to think anything was likely to go wrong. I work as a child protection social worker, based...

'When men open up about miscarriage, it can be quite huge' - Irish counsellor 

There was fresh heartbreak for actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers last weekend as his wife revealed she had lost their baby to miscarriage.

'I feared I would never have a family' - GP on the heartache of IVF and miscarriage 

"I wasn't at all surprised when I heard that mummypages.ie had undertaken research which showed that over 60pc of women worry about...

'I was carrying both life and death and that was very hard' - Mum who sadly lost one of her precious twins at 32 weeks 

To be pregnant with twins was so wonderful and very special. Alice, our four-year-old daughter,...

'My miscarriage was one of the most profound sorrows I have ever felt in my life' - Big Bang Theory star Melissa Rauch 

Actress Melissa Rauch has opened up about the "profound" loss she experienced after losing a...

'The silence in the room was deafening' - Mother describes agony of stillbirth 

Twenty-seven weeks and five days. That is exactly how long I was pregnant with my much longed-for second child when I was informed that my...

'I never saw our baby again' - Mum (80) opens up about the heartbreak of losing her stillborn son in the 1960s 

I remember so much: lying in a crowded ward, in labour, my hand clenching the radiator beside...

'You dream of how you will cope with a baby but not how to cope with losing it' - the heartbreak of recurrent miscarriage 

The language really hurt me. Non viable. No heartbeat. Empty sac. Not attached properly.

'Why we chose to say enough to IVF' - Ruth McKenna on ending her dream to be a mother 

When I was a little girl, I loved babies. I felt important carrying younger cousins in my arms. The paraphernalia that came with them fascinated me.

'I found it challenging to have conversations with people who overlooked what had happened' - Mum who tragically lost her baby... 

Beautiful Bobby Fortune was a much wanted second child.

'I held him, hugged him, kissed him but most of all loved him so much' - Mum on tragically losing her son at 33 weeks 

Kelly Smith on her beloved firstborn, who died tragically before birth

'People search for answers and sometimes there just aren't any' - Grandfather on the loss of five of his children's babies 

Jumping out of a plane at 10,000 feet is something Mark Luttrell never thought he'd be doing. The...

'We knew you, we loved you and we will always remember you' - Mum on the pain of losing her baby 

A busy reception but an unsettled vibe. My name was called and it was like just then I knew.

'I thought nothing could be tougher than the infertility journey until we sadly lost baby Molly at 23 weeks' 

Infertility and stillbirth, two words that should not exist separately and certainly not together.

'I feel blessed having my Heidi after losing her twin at 29 weeks' - Mother's heartache and hope 

A mother left grief-stricken by the death of one of her twin babies, has told how her surviving daughter kept her going and has turned into a...

'We have decided to give up our dream of having a baby' - Irish woman (36) who lost three babies to NAIT 

Noelle Robb sailed through her first pregnancy. She was 18-years-old and it never occurred to her...

'Our baby died just hours before she was born' 

For Denise Black, it had been the perfect pregnancy. She and her husband Nigel couldn't wait to be parents - their first child was due in August 2013.

'We had to say goodbye to our baby before he'd even said hello' - Mum shares heartbreaking story of losing her son 

The first of the five stages of grief is denial. It is said to help us survive the loss, and we go numb.

'The grief was awful' - a husband and wife share their story of miscarriage 

Husband and wife, Fachtna Kelly and Fiona Ness, share their story of miscarriage and how time works on the feelings of pain and loss

'I felt I was being punished'- Operation Transformation leader Marie Grace on losing her baby 

Fergal and Marie Grace watched a Tipperary vs Limerick match on their first date in 2001, and people laughed when they spotted them holding...

Parents open up about the healing process after a enormous grief of losing a baby 

Everyone's experience of grief is unique and no two people will react the same way to a loss, according to Brenda Casey, clinical midwife specialist at...

A father's story of stillbirth: 'I was just heartbroken - My whole world collapsed' 

Anthony Casey will never forget the deafening silence in the delivery room after his baby daughter was stillborn.

15 ways you can offer support to someone who has lost a baby 

Kathy Donaghy talks to bereavement experts who give some advice on dealing with the sensitive subject of loss

'Everything changed the day Conor's heart stopped beating' - How I kept going after losing my baby 

Imogen Carter reflects on what helps to keep her going after the loss of Conor.

'It was not a dead body they placed into my arms - it was my son' - Mum on the loss of her baby at 41 weeks 

Anne Marie Gillooley shares the heartbreaking story of the loss of her son Max and the attempts to rebuild the lives of herself and her husband...

Yvonne Hogan: One year ago today, I learnt that the baby I was carrying at 19 weeks had died 

Exactly one year ago today, 19 weeks into a much-longed-for second pregnancy, I learned that the baby that I was carrying had died. Pretty much...

'Nothing comes close to the pain of losing my child' - Irish singer Donna Taggart on her son Michael who was tragically stillborn 

Donna Taggart met her husband Colm McCaughey 10 years ago when she was working as a cleaner in...

A mother's story: Yvonne Hogan on the pain of losing a baby 

I didn't see Coronation Street last Wednesday. It is too soon for me to watch anything that even remotely resembles my own experience. In the popular soap, Michelle Connor, played by Kym...