Meet The Team
Suzanne
Trustee and Founder of charity
“I'm Suzanne
Our Angel Bears co founder and mother of 9 Angel Babies
I lost my first Angel Aimee over 20 years ago.
I was 17 weeks pregnant when I started experiencing spotting and pains, I thought everything was okay as I'd heard her heartbeat a few days before, but I went into labour at home and gave birth to my baby girl alone , she was perfect but already gone, I was heartbroken, my partner took us to the hospital but there was no support. I felt lost and so alone in my grief.
Many years later in a new relationship I was overjoyed to be pregnant again, I saw my baby wriggling around on their 12 weeks scan safe and well. But a week later the pains and bleeding started , I lost my baby I was heartbroken again.
We decided to keep trying but each time I would lose my much loved baby.
Some of my pregnancies I got to 12/13 weeks others only to 7/8 weeks. I lost 8 babies in a row, recurrent miscarriages totally broke me.
I was diagnosed with Antiphospholipid syndrome, this was the reason for all my miscarriages.”
Suzanne is responsible for distributing our keepsake packages to 10 of our hospitals, manages our social media pages with posts and replying to direct messages, and runs our support groups in Bournemouth and Poole.
Vicki
Trustee
“I am Vicki I first became a mummy to a little star in 2012 I had been hospitalised with the severe pregnancy condition hyperemesis gravidarum. They wanted to give me a routine scan as I told them I thought I was around 10 weeks pregnant but I couldn’t be sure as I had pcos, during my scan they found a sac and baby but baby was only around 5 weeks so another scan was arranged for around a weeks time, a week later my baby had grown but no longer had a heartbeat, this was my experience with baby loss. I lost another baby in November of the same year.
I welcomed my beautiful rainbow baby in 2014 and I’m so fortunate to have him.
Following his birth in 2015 I lost 2 further pregnancies. My last lost being my 4th we were allowed to have investigations, the results came back that the baby was a boy and he had a very rare chromosomal disorder called triploidy syndrome and he was incompatible with life.
I’ve not been through a fraction of what some other people have been through but I share my story to show that every baby matters and will be remembered.”
Joe
Trustee
The reason why I wanted to be a part of the team is to give back to charity in any way I could. I have family and friends who have been effected by pregnancy and infant loss and have seen the anguish this brings to those experiencing it so this seemed the perfect opportunity for me to assist people. I am an uncle to angels.
Kerri
Kerri is part of the admin team and is parent to three angels and a grandparent to an angel baby.
Kerri's daughter was born in 1994 and fought for 9 long days before her little body went to sleep.
Kerri's son was born sleeping just 2 short years later.
Kerri also had an early pregnancy loss in 2018.
Kerri also became an angel grandparent in 2022.
Kerri assists in making and distributing our keepsake packages and to 2 NHS hospitals in the North West of England.
Gemma
For 6 years, my husband and I suffered infertility. We were told in Jan 2016 we wouldn't get pregnant without ivf. This wasn't an option for us and I was devastated. In Oct 2016 I got a very big surprise I was pregnant. My little miracle entered the world in 2017.
In Jan 2020 I found out I was pregnant again we was so surprised, excited on cloud 9 but unfortunately in Feb 2020 we were told it was ectopic at 7 weeks. I was devastated. Unfortunately it ruptured later that day and I lost my left tube leaving me devastated. March 2021 we found out we were pregnant again with our rainbow baby but unfortunately April 2021 it was ectopic again in the other side and I needed emergency surgery to remove the left tube. My world crumbled my journey was over. I turned to our angel bears and the support they gave me was amazing.
Claire
Claire is the newest member of Our Angel Bears, and you can find out more about her in the coming weeks!
