Mum who had three miscarriages creates 80,000-strong community for parents of premature babies

A woman who lost three babies to miscarriages has created a community of over 80,000 people sharing stories of premature babies. Shatoya Lewis, 34, set up Our Little Preemie with twin sister Latoya Young - and it has grown to become one of the largest communities for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) parents in the world.

Shatoya, who is originally from New York but now lives in West Virginia, USA, lost her first child, James, in 2015 after delivering him prematurely at 19 weeks and three days. She said losing him “changed [her] completely”.

“I had to tell him it was okay to die, and that was really hard for me,” she said. “They call it comfort care and I don’t know why they call it comfort care.