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Sands welcomes Tommy’s Graded Model of Miscarriage Care

The Tommy’s Graded Model of Miscarriage Care is a new approach that offers women and birthing people additional care and...

Posted 29 April 2026

Text reads “Pregnancy is often presented as a joyful time but for parents who have lost a baby, there may be a wide range of emotions.” to the left is a photo of Sands' Director of Bereavement Support Rowena Pailing. She is looking into the camera and has dark brown bobbed hair and is wearing a gold scarf

Understanding the complexities of grief around twin loss

Rowena Pailing, our Director of Bereavement Support, Community and Volunteering, writes about the complexities around twin loss.

Posted 24 April 2026

Updates to evidence and information about babies’ movements in pregnancy: working together for change

Dr Julia Clark, Research Officer at Sands, explains her role in Sands’ work to include bereaved parents’ voices in updated...

Posted 23 April 2026

Your stories of baby loss

Jenna's Story

When Jenna was 24 weeks pregnant, she went into premature labour and the following day her daughter Penelope died during birth. Jenna is sharing her story as part of Black Baby Loss Awareness Week, a week that’s important to her because it feels like it gives her, and families like hers, permission to talk about their babies and openly grieve and commemorate them.

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Jayde's Story

Jayde shares how she went into spontaneous labour with her son Ruben at 15 weeks. She received a memory box from Sands when she got home from the hospital and thinks about her perfect baby boy Ruben every day.

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12 September 2026

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Cotswold Way Challenge

Men's 10k Glasgow

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21 June 2026

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