‘The silence in that room was deafening’: What we all need to know about stillbirth

‘The silence in that room was deafening’: What we all need to know about stillbirth

Woman in distress following stillbirth

The silence in the room and on that ultrasound machine was deafening.

Three words which will forever haunt me broke that silence. “There’s no heartbeat.”

I was thirty-five weeks into my relatively textbook first pregnancy. I went to bed the previous night with my baby moving about and woke to nothing, knowing something had gone terribly wrong.

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