“Grief is odd. Like yesterday I looked at your picture and smiled. Today I cried.” On the 2nd January 2021, my partner and I found out the best news. We were pregnant and expecting our first baby. It was such an exciting time, we soon decided to tell our close family and friends our very […]
Family Stories: Bereaved Parents
In Loving Memory Of Cade
Cade Ryan Tomlinson was born sleeping on the 10th April 2022 and weighed 2.5kg and he was 53cm long. Everyone was so excited to meet him, especially his big sister Amity. We did a gender reveal scan at 14 weeks to find our baby was in fact a boy. All our dreams come true, our […]
In Loving Memory Of Ayla Jade
Ayla Jade had an incredibly rare condition. Our daughter Ayla Jade was born on 4 December 2021. She had an incredibly rare condition called limb body wall complex – it affects only 0.3 in 100,000 babies and has a 0% survival rate outside the womb. My husband Reece and I found out at our 12-week […]
In Loving Memory Of Ruby Rose Denika
As I looked over to the doctor, she looked at me and said “I’m sorry your baby has no heart beat” and she will be stillborn.
In Loving Memory Of Nash
Nash’s death isn’t talked a lot about in my family. I think they just don’t know what questions to ask or what to say.
In Loving Memory Of Avery
Our first child Avery was stillborn on the 11th January 2022. We conceived him through IVF and he was so very wanted. At 13 weeks, he was diagnosed with marginal cord insertion. Other than this, we thought that it was a perfectly normal pregnancy. He was the first grandchild and nephew of our family and […]
In Loving Memory Of Peanut
Unfortunately, despite growing to the size where I could see her tiny heartbeat, a few weeks later, we lost our little Peanut just after my 39th birthday.
In Loving Memory Of Sage
Sage Azalea Wilson, my first-born daughter, was born sleeping on 8 November 2021. I had many tests performed after her birth but there was no reason why she had died. Throughout my pregnancy at all my appointments everything was fine. The week before Sage passed I was advised that her growth had slowed but I […]
Remembering Angel
By Paula Morris Bueno, mother to Angel and Eduardo Thanks to you, our panel of experts are now assessing new research proposals – stay tuned! I recently shared with you the devastation Ederson and I felt after our beautiful Angel was born still at just 25 weeks. Today I want to thank you for helping […]
Jamie & Michael’s Story – In Loving Memory Of Patrick & Penelope
My beautiful Patrick Stanley Dore was born sleeping in November 2020. A few days before we would have been 17 weeks pregnant my waters broke. In an attempt to delay the birth, I was put on strict bed rest. But, I developed an infection and my health was in serious decline. At 16 weeks, 6 […]
Evan And Bree’s Story
We stayed at home despite the reduced movement. We assumed he would be ok. We didn’t know that six babies are stillborn every day in Australia. I think of Archie every day. He would be 8 today. By now, he would have had his first day of school. He would have caught his first fish. […]
Early Pregnancy Loss Recognition
One of the most difficult aspects of early pregnancy loss to cope with is how invisible it feels. You may have very few memories to treasure of your pregnancy and you may feel that others don’t understand the enormity of what you’ve been through. Your loss is real, and your grief justified for the little […]
Naomi & Amy’s Story – We Had People In Our Lives Remain Distant
Naomi and Amy are the proud parents of Jesse Peter and 4 little angels lost to early term miscarriages. Naomi is a client services officer, her wife Amy, works in project administration. After a miscarriage at 7 weeks in January 2021, we fell pregnant quickly and Jesse was meant to be our rainbow baby. Unfortunately, […]
Netal’s Story – Love and Loss
Each loss shattered me in ways I can’t fully describe. I wasn’t just losing pregnancies – I was losing babies I already loved, futures I had already begun to dream of, and pieces of myself that went with them.
Amy’s Story – Leo Was Very Much Wanted And Loved
“Termination for medical reasons does not mean you did not love or want your baby. Leo was very much wanted and loved.” It was August 2019 when I received the most devastating news. I’d left my house for a routine 20-week scan, and it was identified my baby, who we later named Leo, had Ascites. […]
Lucia’s Story Talking About Teddy
My name is Lucia, mum to Edmund Joseph, who we called Teddy. It was early 2021 and everything had been going well with this, my first pregnancy. We’d reached and passed the halfway mark and there were no signs of any trouble ahead. But, I now know that even in a very low risk and […]
