A mum who lost her baby at 20 weeks of pregnancy is campaigning to change the law so parents can be given death certificates from 16 weeks.

Lisa Bailey, 31, of Maison Dieu Road, Dover, has set up a petition hoping to get 100,000 signatures so that this will be debated in parliament.

She lost her son Amin less than four weeks ago, when at 20 weeks her son was born but wasn’t breathing.

Miss Bailey, a bouncer in Dover, said thousands of women in similar situations have now been in touch with her and she hopes something good can come out of this and that the new law will be named Amin’s law.

She said: “My baby was perfectly healthy until I gave birth and then he wouldn’t breathe.

"I was gob smacked because my son is a little human being, it doesn’t make sense how you can give birth to a child, not have a birth certificate but you can have a funeral for them"

“He was a little human being, with a little nose, he was perfect. It’s really horrible. I had no idea something was wrong. It came as a big shock. I couldn’t believe it.”

She was told by a midwife that she couldn’t register her son because he was born before 24 weeks. After this, parents are given birth certificates.

Miss Bailey said: “I was gob smacked because my son is a little human being, it doesn’t make sense how you can give birth to a child, not have a birth certificate but you can have a funeral for them.

“I thought it was a good idea to start up the campaign and from doing this I found out there’s thousands of women who don’t have birth certificates for their children when they have been born so they’ve all been put in the same position as me.

“A child’s death comes as a shock to anyone but obviously with not being able to register them, it is harder to deal with.

“I know it’s a piece of paper but when I do eventually have more children, obviously you do family trees and stuff, my son’s never going to be recognised. He will only exist to my family and not to the rest of the world.

“Hopefully I can get 100,000 signatures so it does get debated in parliament and becomes compulsory.”

Her aim is for those babies who die between 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy to be registered and automatically given a death certificate.

Miss Bailey still does not have any answers about what went wrong and why her son Amin passed away but thinks having the certificate would give her the sense of closure she needs.

The petition has already gained more than 200 signatures.