To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week, a brave mum has opened up about her grief after losing her two sons and an unborn baby girl, and how she's worked to honour her children by helping other bereaved parents that are struggling.
Jess, 37, gave birth to twins James and Rudy in November 2019, 24 weeks and three days into her pregnancy following a placental abruption. Tragically, baby James, who had been the strongest and biggest of the two boys, died just 36 hours after his birth. His brother Rudy spent 15 weeks in the neonatal care unit (NICU) plus three weeks in the special care baby unit (SCBU) before being discharged.
However, just two days after Jess and her husband Kelvin, 39, brought Rudy home, he became unwell and was admitted to the children's ward. He became ill once again upon his second discharge, and sadly died in the hospital in April 2020, aged four and a half months old.
