Lost in the quake: The baby boys who never saw their first birthday
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
Among the 185 names etched into the white marble of the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial are two little boys - baby boys.
Baxtor Warwick Gowland, aged 5-and-a-half months.
Jayden David Harris aged 8 months.
Both babies were asleep and peaceful when their homes began to shake.
Babies whose lives were taken before they even celebrated their first birthdays.
Ten years on from the cruel and brutal quake their mothers speak - for the first time in depth - about that devastating day, their loss, grief and if they will ever heal.