In 2010 our daughter Maisey Louise Hall was stillborn at 37 weeks, I am completing the Caerphilly 10K run to fund raise for SANDS and to raise awareness of baby loss in her memory and also in honour of my incredible wife Kate Hall, and how she overcame this loss and grief and went on to have two healthy children Nyah (13) and Jacob (10).

At 37 weeks we thought it was a case of WHEN not IF our baby would arrive, and we felt like we were the only people in the world to experience a loss such as this, particularly so late on in the term. We found out that sadly this happens more than the people realise, however like many things people don’t talk openly about it…

Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, operates across the UK: supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby; working in partnership with health professionals to ensure that bereaved parents and families receive the best possible care; and promoting improvements in practice and funding research that could help to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.

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