My daughter died 48 hours after being born – then came my diagnosis

Two weeks after my heart surgery, I found out I’d got a space to run in the London Marathon (Picture: Sophie Martin)

‘Where are you, God?’, I thought to myself desperately. ‘Why didn’t you heal my daughter? I believed you could heal her, but you chose not to. Why?’

My daughter, Olive, was born with a heart condition in October 2024. She died when she was just 48 hours old.

The months that followed were full of unimaginable grief; not to mention the confusion I struggled with as a Christian, battling with the anger and frustration I felt towards God.

As if all that wasn’t enough – just weeks after giving birth to Olive, I was diagnosed with a heart arrhythmias. My heart wasn’t beating correctly.

It was an impossibly difficult time – but now, I’m about to run the Lond...