'My soul left me' – Hollyoaks' Kirsty-Leigh Porter on surviving devastating loss of unborn daughter

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When Hollyoaks actress Kirsty-Leigh Porter held baby Nala Rai in her arms for the first time, she was overwhelmed with relief, joy and inescapable sadness.

Nala, now three, was a rainbow baby, born two years after Kirsty-Leigh lost her first daughter Penny-Leigh, who died when she was 29 weeks and three days pregnant.The Hollyoaks star travelled to hospital alone for a check-up after feeling reduced movements in December 2018.

Doctors scanned her bump but were unable to find a heartbeat and Kirsty-Leigh was told her much-loved and longed-for baby had died.

The blur of hours, days, weeks and months that followed were the darkest of Kirsty-Leigh’s life. In hospital she gave birth to Penny-Leigh, held her, talked to her and loved her.