Pregnant At The Same Time But I Lost My Baby…

Liz Watts couldn’t wait to be a mum, but then tragedy struck. She reveals how she’s finally found happiness again.

- Sarah Holmes & Clare Stone

Small habits are the most telling. For me, it’s the way I instinctively rest my hands where my baby bump used to be. as I do it, I think about my little boy Isaac and the way playing music would make him kick. I treasure memories like that, because although today I’m the proud mum to three more precious sons, of Isaac, memories are all I have…

I was 21 when I met my partner David. It was August 2005, and we’d both volunteered to refurbish dilapidated school buildings in Brazil. I was hopeless with a paint brush, but David, who was training to be a carpenter, made it his mission to show me how it was done.

When we returned to the UK, David went back to Essex and I went home to Bristol, but he still called daily, and soon I was introducing him to my parents. We got engaged in 2006 and married a year later, the same summer as my older brother John and his partner Alba wed.

John and Alba had been together for two years, but it was as new wives that Alba and I really bonded. We talked about our future plans for family and by the time David and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary in 2008, I considered her one of my closest friends.

And when she gave birth to my nieces – Luana in October 2011, and Alivia two years later – David and I spent as much time with them as we could. Then, in 2014, David and I started trying ourselves. And in August 2014, I found myself staring in amazement at the two little pink lines on the pregnancy test.