Remembrance service for lost babies

A service of remembrance for families who have lost children during pregnancy or infancy will be held in Birmingham today (28th October).

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'The Bullring baby' delivered on streets of Birmingham

A woman has given birth to her baby on the streets of Birmingham just outside the Bullring.

An off-duty student paramedic helped to deliver her baby boy after he noticed the heavily pregnant woman crying in pain.

Jon Wood, 27, went to see if the woman was okay when he noticed she was clutching her maternity notes and was in labour.

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Police given more time to question people arrested in connection with injured baby found by bins

The "very young" baby girl was discovered by these bins in Wolverhampton Credit: ITV Central

Police have been given more time to question two people arrested in connection with an injured baby girl who was discovered by bins in a Wolverhampton tower block.

Police were called to a flat on Boscobel Crescent at 6.30pm on Saturday evening (8th September) following reports a child was missing.

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Stacey's 'miracle' baby

by Peter Bearne
Stacey and Jaiden Bonsall Credit: ITV Central News

A woman from the Midlands has described how she gave birth only 48 hours after finding out she was pregnant.

Doctors diagnosed her stomach pains as kidney stones.

Stacey Bonsall, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, was stunned to find out she was 37 weeks pregnant.

The news was all the more overwhelming as threeyears earlier she had been told by doctors she could not conceivenaturally because she had polycystic ovaries.

Just 48 hours after finding out she was pregnant, Stacey went intolabour and gave birth to Jaiden by caesarean section.

In the intervening time her friends and family rushed around getting togetherthe baby clothes and equipment she never thought she would need.

Stacey told ITV Central she loves being a mother and adores her baby son.

Her mother Joanne is also loving being a grandmother for thefirst time and has described Jaiden as a miracle.

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