Sophie Smith

You know, they're going to be fine.

And that Henry will always be, I remember saying to Ash,

We're always going to call them triplets.

Evelyn and Jasper are always going to be triplets.

And they will know about their brother, Henry.

And Henry will always be a part of our family.

Exactly.

I thought that, you know, that's exactly right, that Henry had...

had come so that Jasper and Evan could live.

And, you know, I could tell them in years to come about their incredible brother, Henry, and what a beautiful little boy he was and how much he was loved and wanted.

Actually, what happened next, it's interesting you say that,

in talk about sacrificing himself, I actually think that Evan, I feel that about Evan as well, number two, because my waters actually ended up breaking on the very day we turned 24 weeks, which at the time I thought,

I couldn't believe how lucky we were that had been 24, you know, here we were officially at 24 weeks.

It was a huge disappointment, of course, and a huge shock.

My waters broke again because we knew that every day beyond 24 weeks was going to increase their chances of survival.

But I also knew that this could have been yesterday, in which case my babies would have no chance.

And so my waters broke.

We were...

We'd been in hospital by this stage for, what, three weeks.

And after my waters had broken, there was suddenly a whole flurry of sort of to-ing and fro-ing from the doctors and staff.