Baby joy for Ben and Gaynor after tragedy
HALIFAX COUPLE Ben Moorhouse and Gaynor Thompson have spoken of their joy after celebrating the birth of their son Apollon.
Ben and Gaynor’s daughter Kallipateira was tragically stillborn in October 2018 at Calderdale Royal Hospital just two weeks from her due date.
This left them devastated, but they channeled their grief into raising thousands of pounds towards a new maternity bereavement suite at Calderdale Royal to give parents a much needed place to spends time with their babies.
Ben and Gaynor have also set up their own charity, The Kallipateira Moorhouse Foundation, to continue raising awareness of Stillbirth.
Apollon Alexandros Moorhouse was born on May 23 in Manchester, weighing four pounds, eight ounces, born five weeks early.
Ben said: “We made a promise to Kallipateira while holding her in our arms that we would do her proud by helping others and making a difference in her honour and by hopefully one day giving Kallipateira a brother or sister.
“We decided to tell nobody apart from work managers for our own wellbeing.
“We did not want people saying congratulations or asking us how things were, or later in the pregnancy saying there is not long to go.
“Lockdown helped us a great deal to help keep the pregnancy under wraps especially in the last trimester. We know how cruel life can be.
“Apollon will bring us much joy in his own individual way but this does not mean that everything is now OK.
“Our grief and pain for Kallipateira will always be there but Apollon will help us and we look forward to him learning all about his big sister.”
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