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She and Rob attended Tommy’s Rainbow Clinic which provides specialist care for women who have suffered a stillbirth or neonatal death. Rob, 41, a golf club greenkeeper says “I don’t know what we would have done without their support.
“We’d been on a very long, painful journey. It felt as if Clare had been pregnant for eight years, but she was at the end of her tether. “Our relationship had been strained because we were both grieving but never seemed to be on the same page. “When one of us was up, the other was down. “Eva was our saviour – but we desperately wanted another baby and couldn’t understand why this was happening to us.” Things had Eva, Rob, Lyla, five months, and Clare felt very different when Clare and Rob wed in 2009 then got pregnant with a honeymoon baby.
Rob says: “We were shocked but thrilled. Our 12-week scan was so exciting, getting to see that little blob for the first time.
“At the 20-week scan they said baby was measuring two weeks behind, but told us not to worry.”
But, two days before the next scan Clare woke up feeling something was wrong.
“I couldn’t remember the last time I’d felt movement, she says. “At the scan, Rob sat next to me, holding my hand, and the sonographer put the probe on my tummy.
“I could tell straight away something was wrong. She said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t find a heartbeat’.
“I put my hand over my eyes and said, ‘We’ve lost our baby’.
Eva was our saviour but we wanted another baby desperately and couldn’t understand why this was happening
Then our world collapsed. I felt so cheated, I had the big belly, the cot, the nursery. I kept willing the baby to kick... to be alive.
“But then they gave me a pill ‘to start the procedure’ and I realised I’d have to give birth.
“It took three days to deliver our daughter, it was like my body didn’t want to let go. When the midwife asked