Journey To Motherhood: A mother who suffered a miscarriage on the same date in the same hospital room a year apart has given birth to a “miracle baby”. Listen to her share her story in the video at the bottom of this page.

Katie Bonful, 31, who had suffered two miscarriages, Shared her journey to motherhood. Given birth to her rainbow baby, Maximus, now a year old.

She shares her miscarriage story in the hopes that it encourages and brings hope to mothers who have experienced the loss of a child.

Katie’s first miscarriage:

Katie miscarried her first baby after experiencing heavy bleeding during her second trimester on March 9, 2017. Katie and her husband Richard, couldn’t wait to start a family and were overjoyed when she fell pregnant in November 2016.

Everything seemed fine at the 12-week scan but Katie grew concerned when she started getting cramping and bleeding just before her 17-week check-up.

‘Suddenly I started bleeding everywhere – the whole cubicle was covered in blood. I was completely devastated and I felt numb.

‘I was so excited and had just started telling people I was pregnant. Nothing can prepare you for losing a child and we grieved for a long time.’

Doctors broke the devastating news that the baby was unlikely to survive and Katie went into labor – giving birth to a ‘lifeless baby boy’ at St Thomas Hospital in March 2017.

Katie’s second miscarriage:

She fell pregnant again, but went into early labor and miscarried in the same hospital room at St Thomas, Westminster, on March 9, 2018.

I was 17 weeks and five days along and I was getting ready for work. I felt strange but thought the baby was having a growth spurt.

‘It felt like I needed a wee – like a pressure down there – so after work, I went to the hospital.

‘They scanned me saw that my cervix had opened at the fluid around the baby had started to flow out.

I was told the baby was unlikely to survive.

‘They contemplated an emergency stitch but only if the pain and bleeding stopped but it didn’t.

‘I went into labor and was in so much pain for about eight hours before my second son arrived stillborn. It was heart-breaking when it started happening again.

‘I thought I’d know what it felt like, but was different to the first time so I had no idea. It fell on the same date that I’d miscarried the year before.

‘Not only that but I was in the same hospital room and the nurses even recognized me.’

Pregnant again:

Six months later, in August 2018, Katie fell pregnant again, but doctors told her she had a high chance of premature labor so she had weekly check-ups until she went into labor at 38 weeks. Doctors  performed a cervical stitch, a treatment to stop the cervix from opening too early during pregnancy

Gave birth to a miracle baby:

She gave birth on April 13, 2019, to a healthy 6lb 13oz boy, and Katie and her husband, Richard, 34, said rainbow baby Maximus is a ‘miracle’.

A rainbow baby is a child born to a woman after she suffers a miscarriage.

She said: ‘Going through a miscarriage once is heart-breaking enough, let alone twice.

‘I couldn’t believe it when I was in the same room twice, going through the same thing again on the same date but one year on – it was like a nasty déjà vu.

She said: ‘After the second miscarriage my husband and I prayed for another child and said: “this time next year, we’ll have our little boy.”

‘Having faith helped get through such a difficult time.

‘The moment Maximus was born I was waiting for him to cry and the second he did I literally screamed in joy.

‘It was the most amazing sound I’d ever heard.

‘He’s such a little fighter – he was our little “rainbow” baby because he arrived after the storm.

 ‘It’s scarring and isolating to go through a miscarriage but there are other people who have been through it too.

‘I hope sharing my story can help others and encourage them not to suffer in silence.’

Journey to Motherhood Video:

Speaking to PregnancyBeyond she said “Life doesn’t always go the way we want it to or the way we plan.

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