"Her grave is my safe place to connect to when I’m struggling." Elsie is 18 and experienced two miscarriages, Lyra at 11 weeks and Lionel at 4 weeks, when she was just 16 years old. Elsie wants to share her story to show that younger mums who...
Our story began in at the end of 2020 when we decided to come off contraception and ‘see what happened.’ I very quickly became pregnant, and we excitedly booked a private scan for the beginning of March 2021, when I would be 9 weeks. However,...
2022 marks 20 years since the beginnings of Baby Loss Awareness Week. We’re proud to share the story of one of its co-founders, Marion Currie, who is a Database Co-ordinator at Sands. The following is a transcript an article that was published in the Daily Record in...
2022 marks 20 years since the beginnings of Baby Loss Awareness Week. We're proud to share the story of one of its co-founders, Carolyn Bray, who is the Assistant Director of Income & Engagement at Sands. The following is a transcript of the article that was published...
I never knew pain until I woke up from my emergency c-section at 30 weeks and was told my baby died. Life has changed in so many ways forever. My relationship with his dad ended because I went down a black hole. To say the least I...
We lost our only child, to necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), aged seven weeks. Our daughter had also been diagnosed with a life limiting genetic condition at a prenatal screening. Almost 4 out of every 5 babies born with full Trisomy 18 don't make it to one year. Sarina...
I grew up visiting a grave and speaking about a brother called Jason. I never met Jason. He was the eldest of the family and born 3 years before me. I knew he was born dead. Occasionally people would say it was a stillbirth and...
The last 4 plus years have been difficult for my wife, Liv and I with what the doctors can only describe as ‘unexplained infertility’. Although we took some comfort knowing there was nothing 'medically' wrong, it was hard not having any form of explanation as...
He may not say it, he may not show it, he just isn’t programmed that way But his heart is broken, and he too carries the grief, through every moment, of every day He lost his baby too He wipes away her tears, then when no-one’s around he...
I often think of grief as a river to cross. Since the stillbirth of my twins, I have been following my own stepping stones, seeing which ones can still support me, and which ones are now slippery and treacherous. My stepping stones may be different from...