Ms Liz McDermott:

It was a coming together in a conversational way after discussing the issue of abortion and women's experiences. When people have a story like this one, they tend to meet eventually. It came about so as to determine what could be done to reach out to women in pregnancy. The One Day More name came from one of our members. She knew that her baby was not going to live for very long and she wanted to have one day more with him.

There are approximately 25 members. It is small - there is no head office or resources. We operate locally. We have managed to reach out to approximately 20 families. There are leaflets in hospitals as well as an online presence, so people can make contact that way or by phone. Much of our support is provided over the phone, given the geographical limitations.

We provide care boxes to hospitals containing blankets, hats and memory-making things, for example, footprint and handprint kits, as well as photo frames and baby books to read to a baby. There is a particular book called A Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby's Life Is Expected to Be Brief, which is available in a perinatal hospice care setting in America and answers questions that people in this situation have. People tell us that the care boxes are valuable to them because they have heard a great deal of negative information from doctors and hospitals about the worst case scenario, what will happen and dire predictions. They love getting something that is a positive, a box that says, "Your baby is your baby", there is another way to perceive the situation and they can have time with their babies.

That is what we try to do. It is a grassroots, low-key group, but with will, resources and investment, it could become tremendous. It tries to feed into Hugh's House and other organisations like Anew to provide care. Some people who make contact after having abortions might need counselling. We put them on that road. We cannot provide it ourselves, but we try to support them at that point in their journey.