The parents featured on this video all received a
distressing diagnosis about the health of their unborn baby.
Cliona and Maura both gave birth to babies who only lived
for a very short time. Cliona's son John Paul was born with anencephaly
and lived for just 17 minutes. His whole family got to spend these
precious moments with their little brother, son, grandson. Maura's
daughter, Laura lived for 7 months with Edward's Syndrome. Her family
was lucky enough to be able to have her at home for Christmas.
Liz was told that her son's limbs were not growing and an
abortion was suggested by medical staff. Liz says she would have
benefitted hugely at the time from speaking to someone who had been through a
similar experience to offer words of comfort and support.
Helena was repeatedly given poor pre-natal diagnoses for her
baby Luke. The pregnancy was difficult and all predictions
indicated that Luke would be born with a serious illness and disability.
After a stressful and heartbreaking 9 months, Helena gave birth to a
healthy baby boy.
All of the parents in this group want to promote peri-natal
hospice care and would like to be contacted by anyone going through a similar
experience as them.
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