{"id":724,"date":"2026-08-01T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/01\/football-player-patrick-murtagh-and-wife-hannah-orval-suffer-pregnancy-loss-the-biggest-missing-piece-of-the-rest-of-our-story\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:18:20","slug":"football-player-patrick-murtagh-and-wife-hannah-orval-suffer-pregnancy-loss-the-biggest-missing-piece-of-the-rest-of-our-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/01\/football-player-patrick-murtagh-and-wife-hannah-orval-suffer-pregnancy-loss-the-biggest-missing-piece-of-the-rest-of-our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Player Patrick Murtagh and Wife Hannah Orval Suffer Pregnancy Loss: \u2018The Biggest Missing Piece of the Rest of Our Story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The couple revealed they were expecting their first child, a baby boy, in May<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/ChMaP3PnEfmfQy2-VNcMo3g1E6U=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Patrick-Murtagh-Hannah-Orval-baby-080126-6474049699c14a58a199629109b288da.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Murtagh and Hannah OrvalCredit: Patrick Murtagh\/Instagram\" title=\"NFL Player Patrick Murtagh and Hannah Orval Announce Death of Baby Son\" \/><figcaption><i>Patrick Murtagh and Hannah Orval<br \/>Credit: Patrick Murtagh\/Instagram<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Murtagh and wife Hannah Orval have suffered a pregnancy loss<\/li>\n<li>The Denver Broncos player and the influencer revealed the news of their baby son\u2019s death through a Friday, July 31, Instagram post<\/li>\n<li>Murtagh and Orval revealed they were expecting their first child in May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NFL player Patrick Murtagh and wife Hannah Orval have suffered a pregnancy loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos player, 26, and the influencer, 27, revealed the news of their baby son\u2019s death through a Friday, July 31, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbeXhyiE8Qv\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeelo Michael Murtagh, born into this big world early and sleeping \ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc7c,\u201d the couple wrote, sharing a black-and-white photo of their son\u2019s feet wrapped in a blanket, as well as others of them each cradling their son and kissing his forehead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will forever be the biggest missing piece of the rest of our story,\u201d Murtagh and Orval continued. \u201cTo be a family for even just for a day was irreplaceable \u2026 We are absolutely devastated, but forever our biggest achievement in life\ud83e\udebd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple announced via <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX2eBOxTfP4\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> in May that they were expecting their first child. \u201cWe\u2019ve dreamt of you, we can\u2019t wait to meet our beautiful rainbow baby \ud83e\uddf8,\u201d they wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbeXhyiE8Qv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbeXhyiE8Qv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\"> \n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On her Instagram Stories, Orval posted a black-and-white <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/hannahorval\/3953744794912527044\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> of what appears to be the room she and her athlete husband planned to use for their baby.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/hannahorval\/3953738042309571988\/?hl=en\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">another post<\/a>, she penned a message to her late son, writing, \u201cTo my baby boy, Meelo, I dreamt for a lifetime of being your mumma &#8230; I\u2019ll always be your mumma &#8230; Our day with you was both the most incredibly magical and utterly heartbreaking day, though forever grateful for it because I relive it every day. We were and always will be a family. I miss you more than I can even begin to comprehend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>One other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/hannahorval\/3953743019757093281\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Instagram Stories post<\/a> saw Orval describe childbirth as \u201ctruly the most sacred thing I could even begin to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pain that we as mothers would choose to go through over and over again in every lifetime. Nothing could ever prepare you for the feeling of your baby touching your skin for the first time. Now I understand,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough we are strong as mothers to bare these children, I could not have understood more in that moment the real power of who we choose to have kids with. Grief filled the room, loudly. The pain physically and mentally, but one thing that never wavered for even a moment was the strength of Meelo\u2019s dad,\u201d added Orval, celebrating Murtagh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment we stepped into that room he wiped my tears, he held my hand, he walked me to the bathroom, he warmed up my blankets, changed my bedding, stayed up while I slept, fed me&#8230; the list goes on,\u201d she further wrote of her husband. \u201cBecause I was giving birth and because I was grieving .. all the time he was too but me and Meelo were never once left without his tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Orval: \u201cI will be forever in debt to the man that carried us both through this world. Meelo would have been the greatest of men watching and learning from his dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murtagh is originally from Queensland, Australia. He previously played for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League before he signed with the Denver Broncos in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Murtagh and Orval started dating in late 2023. They went public with their romance on TikTok in September 2024, according to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/tvshowbiz\/article-16021343\/influencer-hannah-orval-nfl-patrick-murtagh-stillborn-baby.html\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The couple revealed they were expecting their first child, a baby boy, in May Patrick Murtagh and Hannah OrvalCredit: Patrick Murtagh\/Instagram NEED TO KNOW Patrick Murtagh and wife Hannah Orval have suffered a pregnancy loss The Denver Broncos player and the influencer revealed the news of their baby son\u2019s death through a Friday, July 31, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}