A Nottinghamshire couple are raising awareness about cervical issues and the work of Simpsons Memory Box Appeal (SiMBA) after losing three babies in three years. Customer Insight managers, John Webb, 38 and Kate Lowery, 35, of Giltbrook, lost two babies who were born prematurely and one who was stillborn.
In 2020 the couple were expecting a baby girl, and at a standard 20 week scan the doctors found that Kate had an incompetent cervix, and it was too late for a cervical stitch, a procedure done during pregnancy to keep the baby in the uterus. Sadly their daughter Eloise was born prematurely at just under 23 weeks old.
John said: "She was alive with us for about 90 minutes and died shortly after. She was just to small to intervene without any severe complications, it was just too risky to do anything."
