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‘You don’t forget as a mother’: the British parents finally reunited with their stillborn babies | Bereavement

‘You don’t forget as a mother’: the British parents finally reunited with their stillborn babies | Bereavement

As late as the 1990s, healthcare professionals assumed that if a parent saw their stillborn baby or established any kind of connection with them this would only deepen their grief. As a result, thousands of babies were abruptly taken from their parents, denying them the chance to say goodbye. Many were buried in mass graves across the country – but parents were often told different or conflicting stories. Most did not know where their children were laid to rest. Charities such as Brief Lives Remembered, run by Paula Jackson, help bereaved parents find the graves of their stillborn children. Here are some of those parents who were reunited with their lost ones. Michelle and Richard Jones Michelle Jones, 62, delivered a stillborn son, Christopher, in February 1981. She had visited the GP shortly before concerned she could no longer feel him kicking. The GP at the time reassured her that he could detect a heartbeat. Later, after experiencing significant pains while out shopping and being violently sick, she went to hospital and was taken to …

Mother with aggressive cancer gives birth to stillborn to save her life

Mother with aggressive cancer gives birth to stillborn to save her life

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter A mother who was diagnosed with leukaemia while pregnant, and had to give birth to her stillborn baby to save her own life – is now in remission and encouraging others to appreciate the “simple things” in life. Leanne Williams, 38, from Bristol, was 20 weeks’ pregnant when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) – cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow – in 2017. Just four days after her diagnosis, she was forced to make “the horrendous decision” to give birth to her baby boy, who would not survive, to save her own life. She then underwent months of chemotherapy, but ended up developing a blood clot on her brain – which nearly claimed her life and resulted in her being placed in an induced coma. She reached remission before completing her chemotherapy in October 2020, but her leukaemia returned …

Leeds: Baby found dead in pub toilets likely ‘stillborn’ as police say case ‘not a criminal inquiry’ | UK News

Leeds: Baby found dead in pub toilets likely ‘stillborn’ as police say case ‘not a criminal inquiry’ | UK News

Police have launched a safeguarding inquiry for a mother to come forward after a baby girl was “stillborn” in a pub’s toilets in Leeds. It comes after officers found the newborn at the Three Horse Shoes pub in Oulton at around 4.45pm on Sunday. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene. In a fresh appeal to the mother on Monday, Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle of West Yorkshire Police said: “I’m not here to arrest you. I’m not here to arrest anyone else. “This is a safeguarding inquiry, this is not a criminal inquiry. “This is a safeguarding inquiry to make sure she (the mother) is okay and to make sure we do everything to stop it happening to anyone else.” Image: Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle and Karen Sykes He said from the information he has of the incident so far, it looked like the baby was stillborn, with the birth having taken place within a bathroom cubicle. “Until I can speak to the mother, I don’t know anything for sure,” DCI Entwistle …

Woman asks what to do after giving daughter same name as friend’s stillborn baby

Woman asks what to do after giving daughter same name as friend’s stillborn baby

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A pregnant woman has asked whether she is wrong not to change the name of her unborn child’s name after finding out that it was the same name her friend had planned to name her stillborn daughter. The woman, 26, who goes by the username u/BabyNameThrowaway931, posed the question on the Reddit subreddit AITA [Am I the A**hole], where she revealed that she and her husband had already decided on the names they were going to choose for their unborn child when they learned they were expecting. “My husband and I had already decided on what to name our baby depending on the gender, and upon finding out that she was going to be a girl, we announced that we would name her Adelaide. I first heard of this name when I was a kid and thought it was beautiful, and decided that …