March 31, 2014 - Express.co.uk - Warwick Davis Interview (GRETTIR) - Opens up about death of first son

Warwick Davis still grieving first son's death

Actor WARWICK DAVIS has opened up about his heartache following the death of his first son just nine days after birth.

Published: Mon, March 31, 2014

The Harry Potter star suffers from a rare form of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), where the bones' endings fail to form, and his wife Samantha has a more common form called achondroplasia.

The couple's first son, Lloyd, inherited both conditions from his parents and died just nine days after he was delivered.

Davis tells Weekend magazine, "People who lose a baby never do (get over it). But... we are better people for it. I think you develop a certain empathy when you're been through what we have. It could easily have broken us, but it didn't."

While Samantha hopes doctors learned a lot from Lloyd, adding, "We found out later that Lloyd was the first in the world to survive at all (with both those conditions). The doctors actually learned a lot from Lloyd, hopefully that will help other people."
The pair suffered a stillbirth two years later but later welcomed two children, Annabelle, 17, and Harrison, 11.