Elaine McGuire

Shay

Wednesday 25th Feb My daughter's story unfortunately, is not unique, so many women experience the pain of baby loss and it's not until you actually go through this, you find out the scale of baby loss in the UK.  The midwives in the hospital were amazing, they couldn't have looked after us any better, however, we were in the maternity unit and we could hear the babies crying and the mums talking.  The hardest part was having to leave the hospital the next day without our boy Shay knowing that there were new born babies all around us!  At 21 weeks pregnant my daughter was told there were serious complications with her baby, his brain hadn't developed properly and there was no chance he would survive.  He had a massive brain hemorrhage whilst in the womb and she had to be induced to deliver her son at 22 weeks.  We still don't know why this happened, we waited over a year for the post mortem results which didn't give us anymore information, we still have questions!  My daughter's health was never the same after the pregnancy, no-one checked up on her or gave her a medical examination.  She spent the best part of two years going back and forward from doctors to various hospitals for tests because she had seizures and blackouts.  Last year she was diagnosed with epilepsy 3 years after losing Shay.  We still don't have answers! Share