Tag: Baby loss

• You do not need to be a ‘good friend’ when you’re grieving 

  

  Since joining the world of bereaved parents, having already spent a few years in the world of bereaved children, I’ve found it surprising and also saddening to see how many grieving people are wracked with guilt over the fact they feel (or perhaps are being made to feel) that they aren’t being good enough friends.…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving

  Baby loss, Bereavement, Friendship, Grief, Grieving, Loss, Miscarriage, Parent loss, Relationships, Stewie, Stillbirth, Support

• 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

• “Of course you want to be pregnant again”

  

  This is for the parents who are walking the unbearable path of life without their children, whilst struggling with wanting to grow their families. If this is you, I am so sorry that you’re here, but hope these words might help you feel less alone. It was a few hours after I had given birth…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving

  Baby loss, Grief, PAL, Pregnancy after loss, Stewie, Stillbirth, TTC

• 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

• Rediscovering my purpose – Travels With My Son

  

  I had just attended a womens’ circle for womb healing, intended to help us become more in tune with our inner selves and our creativity, as well as healing past trauma and releasing emotional blockages. It was pretty woo woo even by my standards, but seven months on from the reality shattering stillbirth of my…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Grieving, Living, Remembering

  Baby loss, Bereavement, Breathwork, Grief, Grieving, Journalling, Living, Loss, Meditation, Reiki, Sound healing, Spirituality, Stewie, Stillbirth, Support, Travels With My Son, Wellbeing, Womb healing, Writing