Baby loss: ‘We will always talk openly to our son about his big brother Everett’

Sinead and Paddy Lord’s journey to parenthood has been long and difficult. They tell Kathy Donaghy about their devastating baby loss, and how they never gave up hope

Paddy and Sinead Lord with their son Beauden, pictured in Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Kathy Donaghy

Sinead and Paddy Lord always knew they wanted a family.

In 2019, two years after they got married, Sinead —­ who was in her early 30s — found out she was pregnant with their first child. They were living and working in Dubai at the time and Sinead recalls that she was the healthiest she’d ever been in the run-up to the pregnancy.