Letter to the editor: 

Ben Fogle is right: nobody who has not experienced the loss of a child can have any understanding of the devastation it causes (News Review, last week).

Forty-six years on, I still grieve every day for the loss of my first baby at the age of two days. I never had the chance to hold her or have any photos. To this day, I wonder what kind of person she would have become.

No money or privilege — and I had neither — can lessen the devastation caused. Whatever one’s feelings about David Cameron’s politics, I know his writing about the death of his son is genuine and comes from the heart.

We who have been through a similar experience can only sympathise with both the Cameron and the Fogle family — and the many others who rarely talk about it in public.

Christina Burrows, founder member, Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)