My heart has broken so many times this week since I shared Claire from Joy and Pops Baby Loss and Birth Story. Mothers and fathers have come forward to share their grief and remember their little ones who died during pregnancy or soon after. What should have been the happiest day of their life became the very, very worst. The thing that would change them forever.
I used to want to live in ignorance, to pretend that this doesn’t happened and that it does’t happen every single day. It was too awful to comprehend. Baby Loss Awareness Week has opened my eyes and I won’t hide from it anymore. This is real and the devastation is real. Whether it was this week, which for some people who came forward it was, or 20, 30, 40 years ago, these parents mourn their loss. The little personality they didn’t get to know as they watch them grow.
Baby Loss and the Wave of Light
Today at 7pm across the world people are lighting candles to remember these little ones and acknowledge their parents’ grief and pain. Keeping the candle burning for 1 hour means that the light will continuously burn around the world for a whole day and we can unit.
So today, as I collect names of the little people who are loved and who made a huge impact on the lives around them in such a short time, I light a candle for each and every one and remember them.
Louis and his mum Claire
Jenson and his parents Mark and Erin
Hugo and his mum Leigh
Jamie and his mum Janine
Noor, lost 2 weeks ago, and her mum
Laura and her mum Gill (and Hannah, her sister)
Matilda Mae and her family the Edspires
Helen who lost Phoebe last week
Amelia and her mum Pepper
Ethan and his mum Laura
Kayleigh and her mum Marie
Santino and his mum Maria Louisa
Liz who lost her baby 2 weeks ago
Kylie and her little boy
Siobhan and her mum Bev
Mandy and her twin boys Shaun and Robbie
Warrick and his mum Catherine
Caroline and her twins (5 years ago this week)
Nathaniel and his mum Shirley
Tamsin and her mum Lucy and her twin sister
Kelly-Marie and her mum Julie
LJ and TJ and their mum Laura
Bethany May and her mum Bec
Lily-Anne and her mum Linda
Eoghan and his mum Angie
Carson and his mum Stephanie
Austin James and his Nan Ceri
Layla Marie and her mum Kayleigh
Amy Rose and her mum, Jo, her dad and her brother, Luke
Gerard and his mum Fiona
Jaydon and his aunty Leigh
Kim and her son, Sam, and niece, Emma, both would have been 17 today
I wish strength and peace to every Mum and Dad and Grandma and Grandad and Sister and Brother who has an Angel Baby. Much love xxx