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Edinburgh mum opens up about the trauma of losing a child in a maternity ward

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Published date21 June 2022
According to the Daily Record, Annabelle Santini suffered the heartbreak of losing five babies and was forced to listen to the sounds of newborn cries as she mourned the losses

40-year-old Annabelle remarried five years ago and was keen to add to her family. She already had two children, Isla and Hector, from the previous marriage but wanted her and her new husband to have a biological child together.

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However, this route to happiness was marred by tragedy with three early miscarriages, an ectopic pregnancy and a loss at three months before welcoming their new baby Matilda in August.

The first of the five losses happened when she was just six weeks pregnant and she was sent to the maternity ward at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary,

She said: "I had never experienced a miscarriage but I knew where they were sending me because that's where I went to have Isla and Hector.

"It is quite a difficult thing to go through what we were experiencing and pass people happily pregnant. I remember speaking to my husband and saying could we not have a separate entrance.

"It felt very cruel. It is a traumatic thing to put a woman through."

But she went through the same thing twice and then an ectopic pregnancy.

She said: "I collapsed at home and was initially sent to A&E where they discovered the ectopic pregnancy and said I needed emergency surgery.

"I was transferred to the maternity unit and woke up after surgery to remove the fallopian tube and the pregnancy in a room right across from the maternity ward.

"All I could hear was new babies and new mums.

"I have a clear memory of getting up to go to the loo and there was a new mum and dad leaving the maternity ward carrying a car seat with their new baby in it."

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