A mother who lost two children in pregnancy is raising money to improve Kingston Hospital’s “doom room”, where she was given the heart-breaking news.

Samantha Moore, who lives in West Molesey with her husband Rob and their two children, experienced every would-be parent’s worst nightmare on two occasions.

In September 2012, she was pregnant for the first time, and on her thirty-fifth birthday she was taken into the interview room at Kingston Hospital.

She said: “We had no idea there would be anything wrong. They found a problem and had to call in a consultant, who scanned me and told me I needed to go sit in this room.

“The first thing she said to me was ‘have you considered a termination?’ It was never something I had even considered would be part of my life.”

Sam went home, cancelled the holiday she and Rob had booked for their wedding anniversary in three weeks’ time, and went back and forth for more testing.

She was sent to St George’s in Tooting, where she found out her unborn baby had too much genetic material, and that the part of his brain that controls fine motor movement was missing.

It was a matter of when, not if, he died.

Sam, now 40, said: “Even now, I’m absolutely devastated. It’s the little things – we will never know what colour James’s eyes were. He would have started school last month.”

Since then, Sam and Rob have had two healthy children, but the same happened with another pregnancy in 2015 – both James and Benjamin had Emanuel syndrome and were born asleep.

She has had at least 25 scans and has had genetic testing done five times spread over all the pregnancies.

“The whole time, we were going back to that room. It’s horrendous,” she said. “There wasn’t enough space for the midwife and the consultant to sit down. The pictures don’t do it justice. It was so small.

“They call it an interview room, but we started calling it the doom room. The worst thing about it is where it is. It’s right in the middle of the maternity unit.

“There are people going up and down with balloons and car seats to collect their babies, women sitting waiting for their scans, people visiting new-borns – it’s awful being faced with that when you’ve just had bad news.”

Sam is now raising money for a new, nicer room away from the busy maternity waiting area.

She said: “It needs to be somewhere to get bad news, to rest after invasive procedures or to have tests. Some people who use the new room will have a happy ending. I have two children as evidence of that.

“Staff at the hospital have been fantastic. It’s not the hospital’s fault. They’re doing what they can with what they’ve got.”

She is now asking for donations from the public and from businesses – anything from a donation for every house, cake or haircut sold, for example, to help designing and printing leaflets.

To contact her, visit facebook.com/opalproject.

“It's only when you go through something like this that you realise everybody is affected by it. It's a taboo subject, but it shouldn't be,” she said.

“If I can make it slightly better for somebody, I will. It's the worst thing anybody can go through. I don’t want people to feel how I felt.”

To donate, visit justgiving.com/fundraising/jamesandbenjamin.