Your stories help raise awareness of the issues surrounding stillbirth and neonatal death, and also help other bereaved parents to understand that they are not alone.
Jean's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Claire's Connection When my daughter was stillborn in 2005 there wasn't a local Sands support group, but I met some local mums through the Sands online forum. Read this story
Leanne and Mikes' story Having already experienced a textbook pregnancy and given birth to my eldest daughter in 2019, my pregnancy with Ava was also classed as low risk and Read this story
Tanya and Gary's story Good friends of bereaved parents organise event and raise funds for Sands. Read this story
Gemma's story Our baby was due in March 2020. It was my first pregnancy, and everything was completely fine right up until about 36 weeks, when I developed a liver condition called obstetric cholestasis. Read this story
Sonika's story "I gave birth painlessly to a sleeping baby boy at 6am on the 13th January 2016. He looked exactly like my eldest daughter, bold and beautiful. We named him Karan." Read this story
Brian's Story To lose my only daughter at the last moment was, without a doubt, the most traumatic event of my life. Read this story
Christina's story Christina's baby Torin died soon after he was born on 17th August 2020. Read this story
Sarah's story Sarah's little boy Reuben died when he was 2 days old. She helped set up Unexpected Parenthood with other bereaved parents and also established a new Hereford Sands support group. Read this story
Laura's story Laura's daughter Penny was stillborn in 2016. After struggling to find support she set up Unexpected Parenthood and more recently, Hereford Sands. Read this story
Carrie's story Carrie Waddingham, from Leeds, received support from Sands after her twin babies died when she was 16 weeks pregnant in 2018, due to twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP sequence), a rare condition of monochorionic twin pregnancies. Read this story
Dawn's story I was lucky enough to benefit from Continuity of Carer in my first low-risk pregnancy in 2013 as my hospital then offered it to first time and home birth mums. Read this story
My beautiful daughter Hannah I woke up on 24th April 2019 just like any normal morning it was 6:30am I turned 39 weeks on this day and remember phoning my mum to tell her I would be getting the sweep that day and I Read this story