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Baby Lost: how do you survive the death of a baby

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Baby Lost: how do you survive the death of a baby

Hannah Robert and her partner Rima had one day with their baby daughter Zainab- one day, as Hannah writes, "to name her, to give her a bath, to hold her and to sniff her head and memorise every millimetre of her", before preparing for her funeral.

Hannah's baby was killed in the womb when a four wheel drive collided with her car two days after Christmas in 2009.

In her newly released memoir "Baby Lost", Hannah ponders what it means when a death occurs inside your body, but you survive.

She also grapples with the very complex legal question of who should be liable if a baby in the womb is killed either by violence or an accident.

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