English comic Russell Howard is mourning the dying of his new child son, Felix.
“Earlier this yr, our household modified perpetually when our lovely child boy, Felix, died shortly after delivery,” Howard, 46, stated in an announcement shared through Instagram on Friday, September 4. “Throughout essentially the most devastating time of our lives, the hospital employees who cared for us confirmed extraordinary compassion, kindness and humanity. They helped us navigate an unimaginable heartache and gave us assist once we wanted it most.”
The TV host defined that he and his spouse, Cerys Morgan, have been assigned a “bereavement midwife” who “had skilled an analogous tragedy.”
“After dropping her personal child, Lauren retrained as a midwife in order that she might assist different households going by way of what she had been by way of,” Howard went on to clarify. “Her care meant extra to us than we will ever put into phrases.”
Howard and his spouse, who additionally share an older son born in August 2024, have been capable of spend “treasured hours” with their child boy because of a cool cot — a cooling unit and pad positioned inside a bassinet that lightly cools an toddler, permitting grieving households time to remain near their late beloved one earlier than their our bodies are taken.
“We might maintain him, discuss to him and inform him simply how a lot we beloved him,” Howard recalled of these treasured moments along with his late son. “These hours are among the many most treasured reminiscences we now have of Felix.”
Howard then introduced his determination to launch The Felix Basis within the new child’s honor.
“We have been overwhelmed by the care we obtained, and we made a promise to one another: that we might attempt to assist different households who discover themselves dealing with the identical devastating circumstances,” he shared.
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The Felix Basis goals to “relieve the wants of oldsters, siblings and different shut members of the family affected by miscarriage, untimely delivery, stillbirth, neonatal dying or associated bereavement” by supporting midwives in bereavement care coaching, funding assets for emotional assist, amenities and gear, offering data to households and elevating consciousness.
Howard revealed that he’ll host a charity gala at The 02 in London on February 8, 2027, with a number of comedians on the lineup: Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr, Aisling Bea, Guz Khan, Greg Davies, Mo Gilligan, Michelle Wolf and John Bishop.
“Each single one among these unbelievable performers is giving their time fully freed from cost. I’ll always remember their generosity,” Howard famous. “We might completely find it irresistible when you might be part of us for what guarantees to be a really particular night: an evening of comedy, laughter and celebration, all in support of a trigger which means the whole lot to our household.”
He concluded, “The Felix Basis is known as after our lovely son. We miss him dearly, each single day, however we take some consolation in understanding that his identify will stand for kindness, compassion and laughter, and that his legacy might assist different households by way of the darkest moments of their lives. We might find it irresistible when you got here alongside and helped us make Felix’s legacy one thing actually particular.”
