The reason behind this dad’s empty stroller is heartbreaking
“Hey mate, you have lost your kid!”
Australian dad Troy Austin heard this innocent phrase multiple times throughout the day as he pushed an empty stroller while running in the Sunshine Coast Marathon last month in Alexandra Headland, Queensland.
The phrase was a “double-edged sword,” Austin explains in a Facebook post he shared after the event. He heard it for the first time from a woman who noticed his missing passenger at the start line. Little did she know, the stroller was purposefully empty in honour of his stillborn son, T.G., who would have been one-and-a-half had he been there with his dad.
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Ever since my first son was stillborn, I don?t trust my body
Austin’s response?”Yes, that’s the point”?made his reasoning clear. “The smile dropped from her face as she came for a hug and apologized,” Austin wrote in his post. “I smiled because at that moment it was the reaction I was hoping for.”
After the loss of their son, Austin and his wife created T.G’s Legacy, a charity that aims to raise awareness about stillbirths and helps support and connect families who have experienced it. According to Statistics Canada’s most recent data, there we...
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