Due to lots of pointless spam registration, I’ve closed new membership on this site for now. I’ll sort out something better in the near future.

Our little man, George was born at 29 +6 weeks on News Years Day 2008. Up until that day the preganancy had been pretty uneventful (problem wise that is) but going into sudden labour was about to change all of that. New Years Eve 2007 was the first for a long time that i had [...]

After the death of our baby, we spent the next two weeks up at the hospital while his mother began recovering from the difficult birth, and then fighting off an unidentified infection acquired during the caesarean (probably group b strep, as it turns out).  As if things could possibly be worse than loosing a baby, she [...]

Our baby was born in the middle of the night, in the middle of a bank holiday weekend, and died the next morning. These times are statistically at least four times more dangerous than during a normal weekday, because these shifts tend to be poorly staffed and inexperienced. Apparently, the main problem is that when [...]

I lost my nephew last May. Looking back, I think I’d been secretly looking forward to his arrival for most of my adult life.
The journey from that horrid moment of loss, has completely changed my life, even my thought processes have been affected…… What it must be like for my brother and his partner is [...]

We’ve had a lot of trouble finding out what actually happened when our baby died. This is despite his death kicking off something called a ‘Serious Untoward Incident’ at the hospital where it occurred. To be honest, we sometimes wonder whether the reason it’s been so difficult to find things out, is because it’s a [...]