Your stillbirth stories

Beth Braine is sharing her story to raise awareness of a rare pregnancy complication: Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy.

1 in every 250 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth in the UK. That's 8 babies every day. Find out more stillbirth statistics.

For such a small person, who only had a place in the world for the nine months he was carried, he has brought so much love and is loved by so many people.

Nora Leinad of the 'Self Therapista' reflects on how her illustrations helped her on her journey to heal following her stillbirth.

After her baby Melkiah was stillborn, Sharon is determined to break the stigma around baby loss, particularly within Black and minority ethnic communities.

Daniel and Jade’s son Tommy was stillborn at the end of January 2020. In this blog Daniel talks about what happened and coping with grief in lockdown.

Charnjit's baby daughter, Zara was born sleeping. She hopes to raise awareness on stillbirth and intrauterine growth restriction.

Diane talks about creating a memory chest for her daughter, Chloe, and how she and her husband coped with their grief after she was stillborn.

Katie and her wife Stacey were delighted when Katie became pregnant after a round of IVF in 2017. Sadly, at 36 weeks, their daughter Skye was stillborn.

My husband cycled from London to Paris to raise money and we both ran the Royal Parks half marathon two years ago in memory of Dominic.

Gabriel has brought our family closer together. It's not easy to talk about our loss but we know we aren't the only ones dealing with this.

A poem in dedication to my experience.