‘God carried me when I was told I needed to terminate my pregnancy’

‘At a routine check up on the baby, a few days before our planned C-section, her heart rate kept disappearing. Distressed this was the end, I agreed whole-heartedly to an emergency C-section as our church community prayed fervently over Zoom,’ says Beth Appleby.

‘Your baby is too small to survive,’ the consultant told us bluntly. ‘She will either die in the womb or shortly after birth.’ We were stunned into silence, feeling our whole future shatter and disintegrate in front of us.