Anyone who knows me understands that before the arrival our family in 2019 the road was not an easy one.

In 2017/18 we suffered an unsuccessful IVF treatment followed by a chemical pregnancy and then later a missed miscarriage. At 7 weeks pregnant we were told we had a heartbeat the, ivf had worked and were booked in for another early scan at 9 weeks. We were elated that our dreams of becoming parents were finally going to come true. Arriving on that day of the scan we were nervous, apprehensive and excited to see our baby again as having a family of our own meant everything. In a matter of minutes our dreams were left shattered when we were told that our babies heart had stopped beating.

The days, weeks and months that followed were very hard to go through physically and emotionally. The final heartbreak was having to have our baby surgically removed.

People say things like ‘it’s natures way’, 1 in 3 pregnancies ends in miscarriage, but that was not what we wanted or needed to hear! Just because we were early on it was our baby and it had died. The feeling of loss was indescribable and overwhelming.

To raise more awareness of this association means that others like me will never have to feel alone.