Mother Shared Pictures Of Her Stillborn Baby Which Will Make You Weak

Sarah Jade

The mother who lost her baby, Sarah Jade, went through the worst emotions there are. She did something unexpected after that. Sarah and her husband, Tim after giving birth to a stillborn decided to get a photoshoot done and have shared photos that will make you weak.

The sad news

When Sarah shared the pictures she said, “I was holding you. You were real”
Sarah Jade, Tim and their child Arthur hailing from Melbourne, Australia faced something bad, and unthinkable. Sarah was going to be a mother again but when she entered her 22nd week of pregnancy, the MRI scan reports brought in a sad news.

The trauma

The unborn baby was found to be suffering from Polymicrogyria. In general terms, this is a severe brain condition in which an abnormal size of folds develops inside the brain. It is lethal even close to survival.
But the couple went ahead with the gender reveal and upon finding it’s a male, the mother and the father decided to call him Aksel. Things went worse when the baby entered its 33rd week of pregnancy. As per the reports, his heartbeat stopped beating inside while in the womb. Sarah went into a labor and the stillborn Askel came out on 10th February.
Sarah said, “It was traumatic. The worst part was that I was pushing so hard, and Aksel was halfway out but then went back in, and I had to push all over again. I just burst out into tears at that moment. It was like my body wanted to push but my heart wanted to keep him inside of me.”

Letting go...

And then the couple decided to get pictures of the stillborn taken and, Lacey, a photographer was hired. When asked about this, Sarah said,
“I’ll never regret having those photographs taken. It is something for us to hold onto forever. Our whole family saw Aksel and said goodbye. Letting go was the hardest thing we’ve ever had to go through.”

Heartbreaking

The photos are very heartbreaking and can make anyone weak. Just the thought of giving birth to a stillborn can make you cry and shiver, let alone experiencing it. The couple wanted to keep Askel in their memories and hence the pictures were taken.

The photographer said...

The photographer, Lacey, says...
“I think back to all the friends and family that I’ve lost over the course of my life, and while you know what they look like, you don’t have a very vivid picture in your mind but a faint recollection of what that person was like. But to have a photograph of them you’re getting a hard copy replica of what they looked like. So by sharing stories and photographs like this, we’re uniting everyone in that validation.”