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"My brother was stillborn: The story I had to tell first" - Daisy's Story

Daisy explains how when she was six, her brother William George Spurrier was stillborn. As she grew up her parents made sure William was always part of their family but last year, Daisy realised she was actively grieving her brother more than she ever had before. When it came time to make a personal film as part of her MA in Documentary course at University College London (UCL) she asked her mum if they could talk about William. From that, she spent a summer filming “Still Tracing” a documentary where her family shared and heard each other’s stories about William and their stories became one.

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Mason’s stillbirth: “We weren’t treated like bereaved parents” - Phillippa’s Story

Phillippa shares how she and her husband Aaron have lost eight babies between their two living children. Their hardest loss was the stillbirth of their little boy, Mason James Reeks, who was born in 2014 at 23 weeks and five days. When Phillippa had Mason much of her basic care was wrong. Nurses never did any memory making for her and Aaron, the hospital lost Mason’s body for three days and a sample from his face was taken for histology, so Phillippa and Aaron were never able to have their son back because it would have been too traumatic as he didn’t look the same. The couple weren’t signposted to any bereavement support either but discovered Sands could support them six months after they lost Mason. Phillippa’s main drive to try to change and improve maternity and bereavement care is because she doesn’t want her kids or her niece and nephew to ever go through what she and Aaron did.

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