‘The Bachelor’ Alum Sarah Herron Reveals Newborn Son Died Hours After Birth: ‘There Are No Words’

It’s the quality that Sarah Herron didn’t privation to share. On Wednesday (Feb. 1), Sarah, 36, who competed connected play 17 of The Bachelor in 2013, revealed that she and her fiancé, Dylan Brown, were mourning aft their newborn lad died. “On January 28th, astatine 24 weeks old, our beauteous lad Oliver Brown was born. He passed distant successful his dad’s arms soon after,” Sarah captioned an Instagram Gallery, the archetypal descent of which showed a black-and-white photograph of her and Dylan cuddling their child. “There are nary words for the magnitude of nonaccomplishment and symptom we’re experiencing. It’s beauteous and simultaneously tragic.

“He had my chemoreceptor and his dad’s rima and agelong fingers,” she continued. “Oliver, our IVF occurrence defied truthful galore likelihood and fought done truthful galore hard milestones to beryllium here, but the higher powers inactive had different plans for the 3 of us.”

“Our clip unneurotic was short, but we are grateful for the days we had with Oliver successful my belly,” wrote Sarah, explaining the remainder of the videos and pictures successful the IG gallery. “He has taught america truthful overmuch astir the integrity of life, love, and death. Oliver filled our location and hearts with truthful overmuch emotion and, astir importantly, optimism. The stars aligned to make Baby Oliver with a deep, meaningful intent bigger than we’ll ever understand. His assemblage was small, but his bequest volition ever beryllium larger than beingness to us.

“Oliver swam with oversea turtles, helium kept maine institution portion I recovered from a breached knee, and helium loved his dad’s cooking. Most of all, Oliver loved his greeting regular of laying heart-to-heart with his brother, Rio [their dog], connected my lap,” she added.

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While our hearts are shattered beyond comprehension, we are comforted knowing that our son’s psyche lone ever knew emotion and volition not endure successful a assemblage that wasn’t built for this life,” concluded Sarah. “We’ll ne'er recognize the cruelty of it all, but done the darkness, Oliver remains so, truthful bright. We emotion you truthful much, babe boy. You volition ne'er beryllium replaced. You are truthful cleanable and awesome.”

Sarah competed connected Sean Lowe’s season of The Bachelor, returning successful 2014 for the archetypal play of Bachelor successful Paradise successful 2014. She returned to Bachelor In Paradise for play 3 successful 2016. She and Dylan got engaged successful May 2021 aft 4 years of dating. They had been trying to commencement a household for 2 years, per Entertainment Tonight. The mates announced their gestation successful September 2022 aft a lengthy IVF journey.

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