How do I tell a troubled couple their baby died?

I stand speechless, two other nurses stand with me, silently mourning the death of this baby.

The baby who never got to take a single breath.

The mother and father are waiting, I have to tell him their baby is a stillborn.

I prepare myself.

Wiping the small tears from my face.

As I walk into the room, I can see the worry and hope in their eyes, it almost breaks me to have to do this.

But I do anyway.

It’s my job.

When I tell them, I see the expressions drop, the mother begins to wail and cry into her lover’s arms.

“I’m sorry for your loss.”

I muster the words, it doesn’t even come close to how I really feel.

I know the loss they feel.

“I’m sorry for your loss.”

Doesn’t even cover half of it.