{"id":176333,"date":"2025-11-12T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/176333\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:35:12","slug":"baby-loss-she-scanned-over-the-heart-and-it-was-just-so-still-i-dont-know-how-lightning-can-strike-twice-but-it-did-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/176333\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby loss: \u2018She scanned over the heart and it was just so still. I don\u2019t know how lightning can strike twice but it did for us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nKatie Pender always wanted two children, but never in her worst nightmares did she think they would be stillborn. Now she\u2019s speaking out to help others and keep the memories of her kids alive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katie Pender with teddy bears Fionn and Mia, named after her children who were stillborn. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1e47a3f0-0626-4ee0-a73c-c9af81308899.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Katie Pender with teddy bears Fionn and Mia, named after her children who were stillborn. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Katie Pender had a simple wish from a young age: to have two children by the time she reached 30. \u201cAny guy I used to meet, I\u2019d tell them, and it was my little chat-up line,\u201d she laughs. \u201cA lot of them took off running, but Thomas didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now 11 years together, Pender and Thomas Ward are very much a part of each other\u2019s families. \u201cWe go to all the parties and family events, and everyone is standing in the pictures with all of their kids, and it\u2019s still just me and Thomas,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Pender always wanted two children, but never in her worst nightmares did she think they would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,12612],"class_list":{"0":"post-176333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tanya-sweeney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115535578829151705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}