"I was frozen, I didn’t know what to do": Young mum gave birth... and had 40 minutes to say goodbye

A young mum has told of her heartbreak after losing her baby at four months pregnant. A scan revealed that baby Lenny had no heartbeat, and she opted to go into hospital for medical management in September of last year.

But after the traumatic ordeal of giving birth to Lenny who had passed away, Millie then had little time to say goodbye to her beloved son in the hospital.

She is now campaigning to set up a baby loss charity to keep his memory alive and help people going through the same tragedy. Millie, who has two other children, Sonny, four, and Louie, two, is aiming to set up the registered charity with the aim of improving support for pregnant women who have to go through delivering their miscarried babies.

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Millie, 23, explained to LancsLive : “I knew about baby loss, but I did not know it was that common. It was very traumatic and very sad as I was almost four months pregnant. The scan was at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, and they said, there's no heartbeat. They told me, and then we got a second opinion, and then they took me through the early pregnancy ward where everyone was talking about pregnancy. They should have support wards and more support.”

“They offered me to go home and let Lenny pass in his own time, but I chose the medical management, and went in for that. Once I had given birth, I had forty minutes to say my goodbyes."

It was not until recently that the reality truly set in for Millie, even though the event was some months ago. "I was frozen. I didn’t know what to do, and it didn’t hit me until about a month ago," she said. "People suffer with grief in different ways, and I didn’t know what to think. There was no one to