TikTok influencers Abby and Matt Howard shared the tragic information with followers that they lately endured a being pregnant loss.
“It’s with very heavy hearts that we share concerning the lack of our child lady born far too quickly,” the couple introduced in a joint assertion by way of Instagram on Saturday, September 27.
Abby, 26, was 17 weeks into their newest being pregnant, having introduced in August that they had been anticipating their third youngster. (The influencers are additionally dad and mom to Griffin, 3, and August, 2.)
“At a routine being pregnant appointment, our physician couldn’t discover a heartbeat. Shortly after they despatched us in for an ultrasound the place the technician mentioned phrases we’ll always remember, ‘I’m so sorry I wouldn’t have excellent news,’ ” they defined. “That’s once we bought the gender reveal we by no means hoped for, and likewise the information that our child had a genetic situation that took her life round 17 weeks’ gestation.”
Reflecting on their traumatic expertise, the content material creators mentioned that discovering they’d misplaced a baby “felt unimaginable.”
“The grief is completely devastating,” they wrote. “However we really feel a lot gratitude for the time that we did get to have together with her. And we nonetheless have hope. Hope has continued to indicate up for us in so some ways.”
Abby and Matt, 27, defined that they might now “grieve and proceed to think about methods to honor her life offline.”
“Ideas and prayers are greater than welcome,” their assertion concluded. “Thanks everybody for celebrating this valuable life with us for the previous 17 weeks.”
Different parenting influencers and TikTok stars provided their help within the Instagram feedback, together with many followers expressing their condolences.

Abby and Matt Howard in August 2025. YouTube/Matt & Abby
“Sending you all a lot love,” TikTok star Avery Woods replied, with Devin Cordle providing related sentiments: “I’m so so sorry, Abby. We’re praying and sending y’all digital hugs. Love you a lot.”
Influencer Haylee Hess added: “Sending a lot love and prayers❤️🩹 love you and your valuable household a lot.”
Abby and Matt have greater than 8 million followers by way of YouTube and 5.3 million on TikTok. They launched their joint YouTube channel as newlyweds in 2019 and viewers have watched their household develop over the previous six years.
In June, the couple opened up about their method to filming household movies throughout an look on the “Jinger and Jeremy” podcast. Matt and Abby defined that they attempt to restrict use of gadgets exterior of working hours to verify their entire household stays energetic.
“After we’re not working, we’re not working. Like, that’s it,” Abby mentioned. “It’s actually exhausting, particularly for the way in which Matt’s mind operates. It’s actually exhausting to, like, dabble in something. It’s like he’s all in or all out. And for me, I simply don’t need my youngsters to see me [on the phone]. If I’m capable of put this boundary up then I, for certain, need to have the telephones away. We don’t simply have cameras out.”
She went on, “Boundaries means, like, actually no telephones. We’ll textual content relations and mates and stuff, like, ship a textual content or FaceTime folks when the youngsters are round, nevertheless it’s not like we’re making movies or stuff like that. It’s been actually, actually refreshing, truthfully, as a result of it felt like so much for some time — social media can really feel all consuming in case you let or not it’s and it felt good to reclaim some boundaries.”