Coronation Street star Kym Marsh is scared of trying for another baby after losing her premature son moments after he was born, she has revealed.

The Weatherfield favourite gave birth to Archie Jay in February, 18 weeks early.

She is now taking part in an investigation for ITV1's Tonight programme into premature births.

Marsh, 33, said the ordeal was still “very, very painful”, when she appeared on This Morning today.

Asked if she would be frightened to try again, she said: “Absolutely, yeah, and a lot of the ladies I spoke to felt the same way.”

The actress, who already has two children, said: “You do go home and your body is still doing all the things it would normally do (after giving birth) but you have no baby.

“So it's very, very hard to try and channel all those feelings somewhere else. It's very difficult... there kind of wasn't an awful lot of support afterwards, so you just leave with leaflets.”

She continued: “I obviously haven't really divulged too much about what happened to me and I don't intend to do that because that's something that is still very, very painful for me to talk about.

Marsh, who plays Michelle Connor, returned to the soap just two weeks after losing her child.

She said: “I want to know what might happen in the future. If I was to try again, I would want to know that I was being looked after and maybe some steps were being taken to make sure they were monitoring me more closely.”

The Tonight programme featuring Marsh is to be screened on Monday at 8pm.