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“He was born, <\/b>I gave birth to him and there was nothing to recognise that he existed – he was a baby – but he was born two weeks before the cut off,” she told BBC News NI. <\/p>\n

The family was able to bring him home for five days. <\/p>\n

“The lack of recognition impacts your grief. I had so much anger that our baby was not recognised. You just want their name and story told.<\/p>\n

“The only certificate we have for Jacob is a cremation certificate.”<\/p>\n

Leah hopes the certificate will be a step towards the issue being more openly spoken about.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes such losses are overlooked because people haven’t met the baby or know the baby – but you know the baby.<\/p>\n

“It’s a much longed for, loved baby already.”<\/p>\n

Chatting to other mums in a group set up by Lurgan-based charity Little Forget Me Nots Trust, external<\/a> has helped.<\/p>\n

“Speaking to people who resonate with me and just know exactly how you feel has been amazing,” she said.<\/p>\n

Mylah has benefitted from their programme for siblings.<\/p>\n

“She was struggling with the fact that everyone in school had brothers and sisters and she didn’t know how to mention her brother.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“He was born, I gave birth to him and there was nothing to recognise that he existed –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883992146016939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}