Couple who lost twins welcome Coventry bereavement room

Emma and Jordan Fellows said they wanted to "make a change" to benefit others

A new bereavement room has opened at a hospital following fundraising by supporters including a couple who had stillborn twins.

Emma and Jordan Fellows from Coventry said they were determined that some good should come from their experience.

The new Dandelion Room on the labour ward at University Hospital in Coventry is sound-proofed to make it feel private for grieving parents.

Mrs Fellows said she wanted to help make a change.

She lost her twins during pregnancy last year. They were delivered stillborn at the hospital on 18 June.

Since then the couple have been able to raise £18,000 for the new facility and have also been furnishing the room with a floral blanket, LED candles, a docking station and a coffee machine. The room is also due to get a pull-out bed.

Mr Fellows said: "That's something I wanted to insist on, because when I was there we didn't really have a bed to start with for the fathers going in."

The couple have also brought in a journal and written their own story in it. Mrs Fellows said other families had since done the same.

The hospital said it was now in the "advanced stages" of planning a separate bereavement suite, removed from the labour ward, but still close enough to get specialist help if needed.

It said there should be a further announcement later in the year.

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