Your stories help raise awareness of the issues surrounding stillbirth and neonatal death, and also help other bereaved parents to understand that they are not alone.
Carrie's story Carrie Waddingham, from Leeds, received support from Sands after her twin babies died when she was 16 weeks pregnant in 2018, due to twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP sequence), a rare condition of monochorionic twin pregnancies. Read this story
Dawn's story I was lucky enough to benefit from Continuity of Carer in my first low-risk pregnancy in 2013 as my hospital then offered it to first time and home birth mums. Read this story
My beautiful daughter Hannah I woke up on 24th April 2019 just like any normal morning it was 6:30am I turned 39 weeks on this day and remember phoning my mum to tell her I would be getting the sweep that day and I Read this story
Abby's Story On 6th June, 7 years ago, during a routine midwife appointment, I passed comment to our (amazing) midwife that I hadn't felt the baby move as much recently. Read this story
Our twinless twin journey We found out we were expecting twins in December 2018 and due August 2019! Went for my 12 week scan and found out that our twin A had a birth defect, called Encephalocele. Read this story
My precious little girl I found out I was pregnant at 24+6. I hadn't planned a child, not with a long distance relationship with someone in the forces. Read this story
Our Tiny Angel Oliver and a rainbow This was just another normal pregnancy everything was fine I had the smallest bleed and went into hospital I had a scan, everything seemed fine, some routine checks all ok but they deci Read this story
The story of Milan The story of Milan is so surreal, I was told at the Nuchal scan, that I should terminate my baby because she wouldn’t live any longer than a week, or somewhere along the line she would Read this story
Making my own grief a priority I was working as a medic in the Royal Navy at the time and was under a lot of negative pressure from my superiors. Read this story
My beautiful grandson I never experienced grief so closely and because my oldest daughter was having a baby I was so excited, that I was going to be a grandma. Read this story
Baby Lucas Losing Lucas was and still is heartbreaking and is something we are still dealing with. Read this story
Our baby boy My first baby with husband Antony, although I had a 5 year old little girl Sophie who was so excited to be a big sister! Read this story
My baby boy It was late in 2018 when I found out I was pregnant with our second child, he was a surprise. Read this story
Soar with the angels Elijah is my second child, I already have a little girl aged three. Read this story