For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community.

For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community.

For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community.

For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community.

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.

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

Good friends of bereaved parents organise event and raise funds for Sands.

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.

"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."

Remembering Casey, by Jade Ellerby

To lose my only daughter at the last moment was, without a doubt, the most traumatic event of my life.

Christina's baby Torin died soon after he was born on 17th August 2020.

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.

Laura's daughter Penny was stillborn in 2016. After struggling to find support she set up Unexpected Parenthood and more recently, Hereford Sands.