One day I will crack this and find the best solution for my scrappy approach to scrapbooking links and resources, but I know people need something when they find my site so I have put together a collection of links, resources, and articles on one page for now. As ever, please let me know if there are any topics I should add.
Stepping Stones – Baby Loss Awareness Week 2022
You are standing on the bank of a river, for most of your life you are not aware that it runs alongside you nor that on the other side of that river there is another bank, for the most it has been shrouded in fog, and even when it has briefly lifted, blown aside by…
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek 2023 – Support in the Workplace
This is an edited transcript from the event I did for work colleagues. I have been working in this organisation and its predecessors for quite some time. This is important because it sort of steps the context of what happened. When I lost my sons in 2011, I was working in a very different role….
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek2023 – Stories as Tools
It’s #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, a few thoughts as we start the week. This will be a difficult time for many of those that have lost their babies. There will be stories. Lots of stories. Horrible, heart rending stories. These stories are not told to make people feel uncomfortable or for pity or even god forbid, clout. These are…
10 Years
I have been doing this for around 6 years now, writing about my experience of losing our twin sons, going over the events, working through every facet of grief, learning and sharing how to support bereaved parents like us. Over time I have tried to move away from the more personal aspects and focus on…
On photos and baby loss
The reaction to terrible news of baby loss at the beginning of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and ahead of Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK shows why awareness events like this matter. These events aren’t for bereaved parents, they are for the people who haven’t gone through it to help them understand…
Baby Loss in a time of Covid-19 – Support and resources
Losing a baby is hard no matter what the circumstances, and the impact of covid-19 has made handling this loss all the harder by reducing access to the levels of maternity and bereavement care we had worked so hard to improve. It can be hard to find support and this is why there are sites…
#FindingYourWay – Notes from the Sands Conference 2019
Finding my way to #FindingOurWay I woke at 3am with a mix of anticipation and dread. I’ve spoken many, many times on stillbirth and pregnancy loss but not of my sons, not directly. In blogs, yes but in events I’d always preferred to stick to the higher levels and themes rather than the specifics. As…
#OpenUpToGrief – At the Launch of National Grief Awareness Week
This was a great event, emotionally harrowing (of course, how could it not be?) and interspersed with moments of hope, fire and shared desire that things can and have to be better. Building on Baby Loss Awareness Week and World Mental Health day the conversations are shifting and National Grief Awareness Week and all its…
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek – Postscript for #BLAW2019
It’s been a very trying few weeks even before getting to #BabyLossAwarenessWeek but with a timely intervention I got back into the work that needed to be done. Together we have achieved a lot. There is still much to be done and some things to think about as we pass this week and it starts…
Shoebox of Memories 