Couple launch Felicity’s Foundation charity after daughter’s stillbirth

Warning: This story contains discussion of stillbirth and details that some readers will find distressing

It should have been a moment of joy for Jade Morris and her partner Joe Bebbington – the first-time parents were expecting to meet their new daughter.

But waking up after an emergency C-section, Jade heard from her partner that baby Felicity had not survived.

The couple, from Leamington, in Warwickshire, have now set up charity Felicity’s Foundation to provide other parents going through a similar experience with practical and emotional support.

Jade and Joe had gone to an appointment at Warwick Hospital on 23 January knowing that their baby – at 36 weeks gestation – needed steroid injections as scans had shown she was undersized.

But tests on the day revealed the baby’s heartbeat had slowed dramatically, prompting an emergency Caesarean.

“I went to sleep thinking she was going to be there when I woke up, alive,” Jade, 29, said.

“They told me I had to sign the forms quickly whilst I was being knocked out and I didn’t know what the date was.

“I went to sleep picturing waking up and hearing her cry and everyone being happy, but I woke up and Joe was opposite me and he was the one who said she didn’t make it.”