Tag: Aching Arms

• Symbolic sewing – Zero Waste Dress

  

  This zero waste linen dress was my first creation after Stewie was born. In the three weeks between his funeral and my six week doctors check up, when I was utterly bereft and broken and the finality of everything had really hit me, I would go into his nursery and sit at my new table…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Grieving, Remembering

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Loss, Nursery, Remembrance Bear, Sewing, Stewie, Stillbirth

• Falling into darkness, but finding a way back to the light

  

  On my very worst day, perhaps a couple of weeks after my son’s funeral, I stumbled into the woods and sat sobbing in the shade of a fallen tree that I had run past many times in the days when my son was just an abstract idea in the outer reaches of my imagination, and…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Bereavement, Child Bereavement UK, Depression, Grief, Loss, Mental Health, Sands, Stewie, Stillbirth, Support, Tommy's

• Aching Arms

  

  Aching Arms is a charity which is very close to our hearts, as it supports parents who have experienced the heartbreak of losing their baby during pregnancy, at birth or soon after. This support is immeasurably important as this kind of loss can feel completely isolating as well as absolutely devastating. Knowing this from personal…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving, Remembering

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Charity, Grief, Loss, Nursery, Remembrance Bear, Stewie, Stillbirth