Jade Stavropoulos and Leda Ross forged a deep friendship as they navigated, together, their grief after both losing their babies.
Sydneysiders Jade Stavropoulos, 30, and Leda Ross, 36, lost their babies within a few months of one another. Introduced by a mutual friend, they forged a strong friendship in their grief, then found themselves pregnant again.
There’s no rulebook for how to handle losing your baby, walking away from Marlowe for the last time when we were supposed to be taking him home. You end up cocooning in a shock bubble; people call, text and reach out, but it’s hard to know what to say. Jade has no filter and neither do I, which made it so much easier because we could verbalise things we’d never say to anyone else. I call her a truck driver, because she swears like one, though she hates that nickname. One day she said to me, “This is so f…ed up, I just want to be in a coma,” and immediately I thought, “Yes, so do I.” We also share the same twisted sense of humour, which is helpful because laughing is one way to get through grief.
About two-and-a-half months later, Andrew got a phone call from his sister, Amanda. He took it in the kitchen, which is never a good sign, and kept pacing back and forth saying, “Oh, my god, oh, my god.” He told me that Amanda’s friend Leda had lost her baby at full term. My own heart was broken; the last thing on my mind was helping anyone else. I didn’t feel strong enough. Then I started thinking about how I’d felt in those early days, the things I wanted to hear and needed to know.
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