Amanda Holden describes her stillbirth ordeal - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Amanda Holden shares poignant tribute to her stillborn son By Sophie Hines - February 2, 2022 Amanda Holden has been flooded with supportive messages after sharing a moving post on her Instagram, commemorating the loss of her stillborn son Theo. She posted a photo of tiny footprints on what would’ve been his eleventh birthday, captioning the post ‘You would have been 11 today. I’m still grateful you chose us for your journey .. #Theo ’. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amanda Holden (@noholdenback) Theo was stillborn 28 weeks into Amanda’s pregnancy. She described in her 2013 memoir No Holding Back how she had got up and had a bath on the morning of 1 February 2011, when she noticed that she hadn’t felt him kicking in a while. She drove to hospital for a scan to reassure herself, but was told, ‘The baby’s heart is not beating. He’s gone’. She wrote about hearing her own screams as though they were someone else’s. The Britain’s Got Talent judge and her husband Chris Hughes then made the devastating decision to have a caesarean following Theo’s passing. Amanda and husband Chris. Image: Getty Speaking to YOU magazine in 2021, Amanda said the devastation of losing a child had strengthened her relationship with Chris ‘When we lost Theo someone said to us we need to hold on to one another. Chris is my absolute rock and means everything to me’ she said. Amanda had her second daughter, Hollie, 11 months after the stillbirth. She told YOU: ‘Theo will always be part of our family. He would have been a year older than Hollie. I often look at the children in the year above her and think, “Oh yes, today Theo would have been doing this”. It’s not something to get over, but I’ve got my head round it.’ Getty According to baby loss charity Tommy’s, one in every 225 in pregnancies in 2020 ended in stillbirth. Around 60% of these instances are unexplained. Studies have also shown that women who had stillbirths were twice as likely to have depression compared to those who had live births, which is why it’s so important to break the taboo around this subject and allow people to feel that they can talk about their losses. For baby loss support, visit Tommys.org RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved