'I'd never felt so alone - I wanted to change that'

"The lights turned on, I was told there is no heartbeat and you've got to figure out what to do."

Kay Crewdson lost her first baby, Reg, during that hospital scan.

She said it was the "single worst moment of her life and never felt so alone", adding that she didn't get what she needed in terms of empathy and support from the sonographer who broke the news.

Baby loss charity Cradle has officially launched on the Isle of Man, partnering with local charity Arlo's Adventure to support anyone affect by miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or loss at any stage of pregnancy.

Handwritten letters and toiletries are included in comfort bags which are available at Nobles Hospital for anyone who has experienced a loss.

Crewdson, trustee of Cradle said: "I appreciate they're on a production line of seeing people, but I left that room and had to walk back through the waiting room full of people cradling their bumps, all happy and pregnant.

"It was heartbreaking."

She said the charity's founder, Louise Zeniou, nearly died from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy, and was inspired to help others by the kindness of hospital staff.

Zeniou's first ides was "just to make ten bags full of toiletries", Crewdson said, so no-one else would be "left alone" the way she had been.

Isle of Man charity, Arlo's Adventure, was set up by Sarah Owen, after the loss of her son Arlo nearly 10 years ago.

It already provides "just to say" packs to people on the island who had had a miscarriage.

Owen said many people "don't know how to react" when someone experiences baby loss.

"They sometimes look at you like you've got five hears and they don't know how to talk to you anymore."

She said the packs were designed to "fill that gap".

Dawn Georgeson, fellow Cradle trustee, said it was "a real honour" to bring the charity to the Isle of Man - where she is originally from.

She said the island's small population made support just as necessary as anywhere else.

"We are a small island, there's only around 85,000 people that here.

"One in four people are going, or have gone through this, so the island is just as in need of something like this."

As well as comfort bags, Cradle runs weekly counsellor-led online support groups and one-to-one peer support calls.

Crewdson said the aim was to make it "safe to talk about baby loss and break down the silence around it.

"If we can just hold their hand and make that journey a little less lonely."

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