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...
I never knew pain until I woke up from my emergency c-section at 30 weeks and was told my baby died. Life has changed in so many ways forever. My relationship with his dad ended because I went down a black hole. To say the least I...
We lost our only child, to necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), aged seven weeks. Our daughter had also been diagnosed with a life limiting genetic condition at a prenatal screening. Almost 4 out of every 5 babies born with full Trisomy 18 don't make it to one year. Sarina...
I grew up visiting a grave and speaking about a brother called Jason. I never met Jason. He was the eldest of the family and born 3 years before me. I knew he was born dead. Occasionally people would say it was a stillbirth and...
2016 was the year. My husband and I decided we were ready to try for a child. Having already had a four-year-old daughter, we were keen to give her a sibling. We were in good health and were happy, so it really felt like a...
My name is Katie, here is my story: I was pregnant back in 2018, after losing a baby prior it was worrying. However everything was perfect. I went to my 20 week scan, although very anxious, everything was going well. We decided to do a...
I suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 2016 which resulted in surgery to remove my baby and fallopian tube. I had no symptoms other than a speck of blood and was told when mentioning it to a midwife that it was probably implantation bleeding and was nothing...
Sophie was my third child and my first daughter. We very much wanted a little girl to complete our family. Back in 1982, scans were only done if there was any problems. I had a very good pregnancy, no problems at all. When I was 40...
I'd had the “perfect pregnancy” and was down for a home birth. Things didn't progress and at 42 weeks I was booked in for an induction. We dropped our son off at my parents’ and made our way to hospital ready to meet our little...
The last 4 plus years have been difficult for my wife, Liv and I with what the doctors can only describe as ‘unexplained infertility’. Although we took some comfort knowing there was nothing 'medically' wrong, it was hard not having any form of explanation as...