When Amanda McArthur found out she was pregnant in 2021, it was a dream come true.

She and her husband, Brad Carman, had wanted a third child and they weren’t sure it would happen for them.

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When Declyn died at three months of age, McArthur and her husband and two children felt not only the hole it left in their family, but also the confusion, disappointment and grief of losing a baby during the tumultuous time of the COVID-19 pandemic and in uncertain circumstances.

Now, the family is raising money to support pediatric care at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), to help ensure that others won’t have to experience what they went through.

“When I was pregnant, everything was OK,” McArthur told the Whig-Standard. “But there was a point they were doing the ultrasoun

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