Coventry mum speaks of her ordeal on #BabyLossAwarenessWeek

To help raise awareness about baby loss and encourage people to join in the conversation, Coventry mum, Sharon Luca-Chatha, spoke to us about her son, Luca, who was sadly a still birth 10 years ago.

She said: "I always refer to the loss of a child - it's a backpack sewn onto you.

"It stays with you, its a trauma that you carry with you for the rest of your life. It is a scar."

Sharon didn't know there was anything wrong throughout her pregnancy. She said: "When I had a growth scan at 24 weeks, because I was measuring quite small, they said everything was fine. It wasn't until his post-mortem results that actually, we realised, that they had missed something on that growth scan, which would have indicated that they needed to monitor him."

Luca died in the womb on a Monday, three days before Sharon gave birth. She and her husband added his name to their surname to help keep his memory alive.

"He just fell to his knees and cradled me and my stomach and we both sobbed."

She continued: "When we learned that Luca had passed, my husband just fell to his knees and cradled me and my stomach and we both sobbed."

She has been campaigning for years to open up the conversation around baby loss and is open about her experience.

She set up The Luca Foundation where she works to get cuddle cots into hospitals. These are specially made cots that keep babies' cool so that parents can spend more time with their children.

Sharon says it is important because it gives families days with their babies instead of hours: "When he was born sleeping, we didn't have a cuddle cot, which meant we only had a few hours with him to say our goodbyes to him and to hold onto him and have our cuddles.

"It gives parents days to say their goodbyes, instead of just hours like we had.

"We call it the gift of time and when I speak to parents who have had it and they learn that we didn't, they can't comprehend it."