Former Coronation Street star Kym Marsh has been left ‘very emotional’ as she spoke about the baby loss certificate scheme

Kym Marsh shared her deep emotions on Wednesday’s BBC Breakfast as she discussed the government’s decision to extend the baby loss certificate scheme during Baby Loss Awareness Week. The actress, known for her role in Coronation Street and aged 48, opened up about the profound grief of losing her son Archie in 2009 who was born 18 weeks early.

Marsh reflected on the significant impact the newly announced government scheme would have for parents like her. Now, due to the extended initiative which began this February covering losses since September 2018, there is no time limit, allowing certificates for any parent who has lost a baby before reaching 24 weeks of pregnancy, or 28 weeks prior to October 1992.

Kym discussed the government’s decision to extend the baby loss certificate scheme(Image: (Image: BBC))

With heartfelt honesty, Kym spoke on the morning show: “Well, I’m very emotional this morning actually so I apologise if I start to get upset! ” She eloquently expressed the importance of recognition, saying, “These certificates mean so much as we’ve heard already it makes your baby not just a statistic, my Archie was here, I gave birth to him, I held him, we had a funeral, he mattered, he mattered to all of us.”

Kym emphasized the pain of lacking anything that acknowledged their child’s existence, concluding, “For us to not get anything that recognised he was here was absolutely heartbreaking because he was a little person and he was our little person.”

Discussing the recent developments in the baby loss certificate scheme, Kym expressed her joy: “We’re so delighted, this is a huge win, a huge win for all of us and a huge win for saying goodbye, it’s just fantastic,” reports the Express.

Kym shared that son Archie remains an integral part of their lives

Reflecting on her son Archie, Kym shared that he remains an integral part of their lives: “We celebrate his birthday, we do that every single year.”

She continued, discussing her daughter Polly’s awareness of her brother: “Polly, who is now 13, obviously she was born after the loss of Archie, she knows all about Archie. We celebrate him, we talk about him, we include him in Christmas, we think about him because he was our child and he matters just as much as the ones lucky enough to be here do.”

In a heartfelt statement, Kym added: “So yeah, it’s very important that we remember our children and this certificate is going to help everybody to do that.”