Lucy Livesey was 20 weeks pregnant when she was taken into a private room at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. She knew from the plain chairs and neutral wallpaper that it was a 'bad news room’, just like the one she was led into when her twin brother died in 2004.
And it was bad news. Her unborn daughter had developed a heart problem and medics were unsure whether she had a chance at life.
It started to rain as Lucy and her husband Rick drove back to their home in Oldham. Following multiple tests and an agonising three-week wait, the couple were finally given the update they were dreading. Their baby’s heart had not formed properly and her condition was too severe. She would not survive following birth.
