GB News presenter Anne Diamond has opened up about the heart-wrenching advice she received after the tragic loss of her son Sebastian.

The veteran broadcaster, now 70, gave birth to her third child with husband Mike Hollingsworth back in 1991. Tragically, just four months later, the baby boy died from cot death, despite Anne's adherence to all medical guidance at the time.

Now, the TV personality has shared the impactful steps she took to honour her son's memory and advocate for changes that could save other infants' lives.

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On Friday (March 14), the mother of five disclosed the appalling counsel she was given by doctors following her devastating loss.

Anne recounted: "When it comes to babies, I think that there's this idea almost that having babies is difficult and dangerous, and somewhere along the line, you just have to accept the terrible things that can occur."

She then recalled that she was bluntly advised by healthcare professionals, "I was told by the medical establishment, by some perfectly nice doctors and nurses basically to go home and grieve, and cheer up and have another one," reports .

The TV veteran confessed she was completely unaware of the risks of cot death when she was raising her son, after seeing no negative repercussions with her first two children. She admitted: "I was in total ignorance when I had Sebastian.

"I brought him up the same way I brought up my other two little boys already. I laid him on his front because that's what we were all told to do, but there's a danger". Following his passing, the journalist researched the risks of cot death where she learnt that New Zealand had been campaigning to raise awareness about cot deaths.

"At the very same time, in New Zealand they had found that out and they decided to turn all of their research into a campaign. And we in Britain were deliberately kept ignorant of that so that we could be a control against New Zealand’s campaign, and that is scandalous.

"I was so angry, I thought if I can’t get action in any other way, I will sue the government for allowing my baby to die because they could have been campaigning to help save his life". The TV star went on to explain how she "prostituted her grief" in order to raise awareness for the huge risks to newborns.

She continued: " Every radio programme, every newspaper that asked for an interview, we just had to talk about our grief, we had to talk about what we’d found. It was prostitution of our grief, frankly, but it was the only way in the end that we could get the government to sit up and take notice.

"We're having to learn it with lots of campaigners at the moment, think of the farmers. You’ve got to raise a stink and build a blaze to get any action at all. There are miscarriages now that could be avoided if we took better care of mum and I think that more campaigns are needed on that now".

After Sebastian's death, the GB News star became an advocate for safe infant sleep practices, particularly promoting the Back to Sleep campaign, which encourages parents to place their babies on their backs to sleep to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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