Baby boy is here
Finally posting now that we are settled 🩵
Baby Jack was born on 24 April 2026 and 9:02am via planned C-section, 3.3kgs/7.3lbs and came out screaming. The best sound I’ve ever heard.
Jack’s birthday is one year to the day from when we found out his sister Charlotte had died. It felt like a full circle moment in the hardest way. We celebrated Charlotte’s birthday with Jack at home, which was wonderful and terribly sad at the same time.
The last two weeks of pregnancy were the hardest - I didn’t quite anticipate it. And the last 24 hours was harrowing, I was counting down each hour just hoping he would make it.
Pregnancy after stillbirth was the hardest thing I’ve done, and I was really not prepared for him to live. Each day it gets easier to understand that he is here and he’s healthy and happy.
For those of you going through this journey, hold on, it’s so so worth it, but so so hard. I don’t think I’ve even begun to process just how hard it was yet.
One bit of advice I would give is prepare as much as you can for breastfeeding, and ask for help early if it’s not working (if it’s something you want to do). Feeding is the bit I found the most triggering - my hospital didn’t support me with it so Jack lost a lot of weight in the first two days due to a shallow latch. He’s back on track now, but it was so hard to feel like I was failing him once he was outside of my body.
Thank you all for your replies and support on my posts throughout pregnancy. Having a community like this made pregnancy after sb feel just a tiny bit more manageable and would have otherwise have been so lonely and isolating. As you know it’s hard to find people who really truly understand know what we are going through.