The ANDA Satellite pilot service was set up in 2011 working from Poole Medical Centre located at 36 Parkstone road Poole. This is a newly refurbished GP surgery located just behind the lighthouse (art centre) in Poole town centre. The service is staffed with 2 senior Day Assessment (ANDA) midwives called Sam Dell and Carolyn…
When our daughter, Daisy, was stillborn during labour in February 2012, I was shocked to discover how many families sadly go through this devastating experience every day. In fact, according to Sands, the national stillbirth and neonatal death charity, 17 babies are stillborn or die before they are one month old every day in the…
In the aftermath of losing my son I needed to fall pregnant as soon as possible. I wanted to show Finlay that I would have been a good Mum, that he would have been safe with me. Against advice, we started trying straight away and luckily for us, two months later, I have a positive…
My daughter Amber-Willow is a rainbow baby. She is five months old and has just started to wean having this week tried pear, apple, butternut squash, sweet potato, toast, beans, soup and this morning some of my pain au chocolat. Like her dad and brothers she would rather give broccoli a miss! Amber-Willow aka Spider…
March 5 2010 changed my life – the day I was told to decide whether to continue my pregnancy or not. Undoubtedly the hardest decision I will ever make (I hope!). Knowing that if my baby survived birth, she would die within a few hours, was all I needed to know to decide that I…
At the beginning of December 2010, I discovered that I was pregnant again. We were already blessed to have a daughter; Megan aged five, and our angel Baby Katie was born in April 2010. Over the next few weeks, we told no one. Too scared that something could go wrong we kept putting off telling…
In October 2008 we were delighted to discover that we were expecting our first baby. My pregnancy was what you would consider “text book”, only feeling slightly nauseous at the beginning. Five days after my due date I went into labour. We called Bournemouth Hospital, as I saw signs of bleeding to which a midwife…
As I sit cuddling my beautiful Rainbow Baby I am amazed at how quickly time passes when you have a baby compared to how endless a 9 month pregnancy seems, especially a rainbow one. You do a pregnancy test and feel that brief feeling of excitement followed closely by the feelings of fear, worry and…
‘Despite all my willing her to, she did not draw a breath…’ I will always feel the loss of my baby girl. Today it is 4th April 2011; she was stillborn on 1st April 2010, a little over a year ago. She was delivered at 35 weeks in the SPRING suite at St.Mary’s Maternity Unit, Poole, a beautiful…
‘I wanted to feel the pain for taking Finlay’s life….’ Everything was going well with my 2nd pregnancy, apart from the normal morning sickness and indigestion! We already have a 2 year old daughter, called Libby and all had gone well when I was pregnant with her. We had our 12 week scan, which was…
