He’s now a proud dad of two
Radio funnyman and former Big Brother contestant Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald has described the moment he and his wife Belinda lost their baby daughter as “the end of the world.”
The usually jovial Nova 969 presenter is now the proud father of two little boys, Hewston, 5, and Lennox, 2, but his wife miscarried their first child, a daughter, in 2008.
Fitzy appeared on the cover of Sunday Style yesterday wearing a white shirt in support of the White Shirt Campaign for ovarian cancer, and told the magazine about the devastating loss.
“My wife [Belinda] and I lost a child [in pregnancy], so there was a moment where that was the end of the world,” he told Sunday Style.
“But when we had our first child, Hewston we had to think how lucky we were to have one.”
He also spoke about the traumatic experience to Show and Tell after the birth of Lennox:
“We lost our first child Cayley Jay and unfortunately BJ still had to give birth. It was a very traumatic experience but also brought us so much closer.”
The former Big Brother contestant and AFL player is full of admiration for his wife.
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“When you think that you can love someone only so much, it is heightened even more when you watch them go through a process like labour,” he said.
“As an observer it seems like an out of body experience, but my wife went 23 hours without one drug! I stuff myself with Nurofen if I have a sniffle!”
Mamamia has released a book, Never Forgotten, for all the tens of thousands of families who have experienced pregnancy loss, miscarriage, still birth and neo natal death. The loss of any child, particularly during pregnancy or soon after birth, is an extraordinarily traumatic process and one it can be impossible for other people to understand.Mamamia publisher Mia Freedman and senior writer Bec Sparrow have both been there and after helping each other through the grief process began to reach out to other women going through similar trauma.
All the proceeds will go towards charities who help families who have suffered this very common yet widely misunderstood type of loss.
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If someone has to have a C/S at 23 weeks the uterus has not grown large enough, so they have to do a classical wound which is longitudinal (up and down instead of horizontal). The classical wound is far riskier, especially for the next pregnancy and it is advised not to attempt a vaginal birth after one of these C/S.
I lost my baby when I was seven months pregnant, unexplained death in utero, I was given a powerful hormone to go into contractions. I delivered my silent baby boy Jacob alone, on the bathroom floor in my private room without any assistance, because the nurses were changing shift and my husband was told to go home as it would take a while. It was a horrible experience, but two years later I delivered another baby boy at home in my bathroom, but it was a joyous empowering experience with no drugs involved! Baby Ethan was my healing.