Danielle is running the Great North Run 2024!

Do you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of The Miscarriage Association and every donation will help. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

More information about The Miscarriage Association: Miscarriage can be a very unhappy, frightening and lonely experience. The Miscarriage Association provides support and information for anyone affected by the loss of a baby in pregnancy.

My Story

Hello I’m Danielle & I am running the Great North Run 2024 for The Miscarriage Association!!

(This story may seem TMI but there isn’t enough ‘Information’ given without these charities so this is my story to help and raise awareness)

This charity is very personal to me & my family. Knowing first hand how it feels to suffer pregnancy loss makes this even more motivating to raise money & awareness.

In October 2019 me & my husband found out we were expecting with our second baby, our honeymoon baby. We had a short 8 weeks to dream about what our lives would be like adding this already loved little one to our family.

That was before that dream was torn away from our hearts.

Crying with me in the bathroom when I started bleeding, my husband organised childcare for our 3 year old before taking me straight to hospital.

Having to wait for hours & hours in pain to be seen, we were taken to a private room.

A lot of this memory is blurry for me as I went in such a daze, but I remember being told I would have to wait a couple of days for a scan but it wasn’t looking good.

Being sent home until a scan 2 days later still in pain, still heartbroken.

We get to the scan & I just hear white noise. I will forever be grateful to my husband for being there & being my listening ears when I was too heartbroken to hear.

“I’m sorry there’s no heartbeat. It looks like your cervix won’t let go & your body still thinks it’s pregnant”

We then arranged with an amazing surgeon to have a D&C 2 days later as we had a 3 year old who was wondering where her mammy and daddy were.

As we were told the medication route could take up to 3 weeks and I didn’t want to do that to myself.

The day of the surgery was just awful, a ball of anxiety & not to mention the pain after taking pills you’re given hours before your surgery to soften and dilate your cervix ready for the surgery.

I won’t go into too much detail but the pain was almost like labour itself.

Post surgery, feeling emotionally numb and just so so sad. I was sent away just with a pregnancy test to do in 3 weeks to make sure it was all taken away. No post op appointment, no continuity of care.

I couldn’t help but just think of the last time I did a test & it was positive.

I went to a very dark place but fought my way out with the help of my beautiful daughter & husband.

They will never know how much they helped me, not to mention my parents, my in laws, our siblings & our friends.

If you’re reading this you know who you are thank you so much.

Almost a year of trying later we fell pregnant with our rainbow baby Noah (a rainbow baby is a baby born after a loss.. the rainbow after the storm) He is everything we could have wished for and more!

I’m not only running this for me.

I’m a beauty therapist so I have the luxury or making women feel amazing every day!

But I also have the luxury of building connections & friendships with these amazing women.

Many many many of these amazing women have opened up to me & cried on me after their miscarriages/baby losses.

I feel so honoured that they feel so comfortable to open up and have those conversations with me.

Not only my clients but since opening up about my experience I have had friends & close family members talk to me about their personal stories too.

So this is for you all. For the parters also. I see you too.

For our little angel up there I’ll always hold you in my heart, you’ll always be a part of our family.

Now let’s all laugh at me as a non runner to becoming a half marathon runner hahaha!!

More than ONE IN FIVE pregnancies end in miscarriage

Thank you for reading & donating xxx