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Kym Marsh: The silence of my son Archie's birth haunts me

Kym Marsh speaks for the first time about losing her baby boy

Jamie Lomas and Kym Marsh are planning a wedding in 2012

Kym Marsh has opened up about the heartbreak of losing baby son Archie.

Her son with fiancé Jamie Lomas' was stillborn in Febuary 2009.

In new book From The Heart, Coronation Street star Kym reveals how she had go through full labour at just 21 weeks pregnant, knowing her little boy would not survive.

'Jamie climbed onto the bed and was holding me as I screamed. "It's OK, it's OK babe. It's going to be OK," he was saying over and over,' Kym, 35, writes.

'But I knew then that it was never going to be OK for our baby.

'It was then we decided to name the baby. He had a battle on his hands and we wanted him to have a name.'

The couple decided to call their son Archie Jay Lomas, then Kym - whose waters had broken - had to endure nearly 24 hours of contractions.

'I just had to lie on the bed and wait for Archie to be born - and to die,' she writes.

'After what seemed like a lifetime, with one final push Archie came out into the world. He tried to take a breath and then he passed away.

'At the moment I gave birth to him, I looked up and saw Charley's (Jamie's sister's) face. She looked horrified.

'And then there was just absolute silence. It was the silence that haunted me.

'No baby screaming, no doctors and nurses running around. Just silence.'

Kym and Jamie became parents to baby Polly in March. Kym is already mum to David, 15, and Emily, 13, from a former relationship.

Jamie, 31, is dad to son Billy, 4, with ex-girlfriend Haley Lever.

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