A heartbroken mum who lost her 'beautiful' baby girl at just 19 weeks into her pregnancy is now campaigning for her child to be classed as stillborn.
Rachael Guinan went through the ordeal of giving birth on April 4 to a baby girl who had died at 19 weeks and one day into the pregnancy. The mum-of-three, who was already devastated by the ordeal, was further traumatised when she found out the birth was classed as a miscarriage due to the law only defining stillborn as babies lost after 24 weeks.
The 28-year-old from Skelmersdale said: "I want the government to change this law that defines stillbirth as only applying to babies lost after 24 weeks. When a mother has to give birth to the child, this is a stillborn baby. I can understand being classed as a miscarriage when you don’t deliver any baby, as I’ve also been through this myself. Giving birth is completely different. That’s logic."
