British comedian Russell Howard has revealed that he and his wife’s newborn son, Felix, died earlier this year shortly after his birth.<\/p>\n
Howard took to social media to describe the ordeal his family went through during “the most devastating time” of their lives. <\/p>\n
“During our time in hospital, Felix was placed in a cool cot, which meant that my wife and I were able to spend precious hours with our beautiful boy.<\/p>\n
“Those hours are among the most precious memories we have of Felix,” he said.<\/p>\n
Howard praised the hospital staff for their care, claiming their bereavement midwife Lauren helped them through the difficult period.<\/p>\n
“Her care meant more to us than we can ever put into words,” Howard said.<\/p>\n
“The hospital staff who cared for us showed extraordinary compassion, kindness and humanity. They helped us navigate heartache and gave us support when we needed it most.”<\/p>\n
The comedian announced he was setting up a charity that will aid parents and families during miscarriages, premature births, stillbirths and neonatal deaths. It will be called The Felix Foundation. <\/p>\n
“We made a promise to each other: that we would try to help other families who find themselves facing the same devastating circumstances,” Howard said in the statement.<\/p>\n
The foundation is set to host a charity gala at The O2 Arena in London next year on February 8, featuring a line-up of comedians including Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr and Greg Davies.<\/p>\n
Felix was Howard’s second child, his first son was born in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British comedian Russell Howard has revealed that he and his wife’s newborn son, Felix, died earlier this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-590483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}