You may have heard of Saying Goodbye in recent weeks, if you’re on Twitter.
Saying Goodbye is a non-profit organisation that is currently working to create a series of services of remembrance around the UK, for all those who have suffered the loss of a baby, during pregnancy, childbirth or infancy.
These national services recognise what so many of us sadly know – that losing a baby at any stage is traumatic, and early loss is often not discussed.
Here at Tots100, we’ve teamed up with Saving Goodbye to highlight and share your posts about early loss. Over the next month, we’ll be sharing some of our bloggers’ stories about their experiences, and encouraging those who would like the opportunity to celebrate their babies’ lives, to grieve and to remember, to find out more about the national services of remembrance.
Some of our bloggers have direct experience of loss, while others are writing from the perspective of supporting a friend or loved one. We know that during times of loss, parents often turn to the Internet for information, and we hope that our bloggers’ voices will provide comfort, inspiration and inspiration to those in need.
If you would like to help spread the word about Saying Goodbye, we’d love for you to share your own posts about miscarriage and loss in the comments to this post, or by Tweeting us. We’ll share all your posts on Twitter and Facebook, and in a round-up post at the end of the month. You can always email us, too.
If you’re writing about miscarriage or loss this month, we’d also love you to consider using the badge below so your readers can find out more about Saying Goodbye, and our bloggers’ experiences.
We’d like to thank all the bloggers who are taking part in our Heart Prints blogging carnival – and we’ll be kicking off our first post later today over at Mum in the Madhouse.
Make sure you’re following us @tots100 to see all of our posts during September.
tots100 Saying Goodbye Heart Prints Carnival Badge Code:
You can download and use our contributor’s badge (you might need to copy/paste this code into Notepad or Text Edit to make sure it works):
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Just copy and paste this code for your chosen badge into a new text widget (WordPress) or gadget (Blogger) in your blog sidebar to display a clickable badge.
About Sally
Sally Whittle is founder of the Tots100, Foodies100, BlogSummit and the MAD Blog Awards. When she's not working, she can be found blogging at Who's the Mummy, or having fun with her 7 year old daughter, Flea.
Here is my post about miscarriage that was written in August last year. http://missyb-andfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/painful-memories.html?m=0
I am not sure if I should share this post as I was only 6 weeks pregnant, but I blogged about my loss for Emma’s Diary a week ago here
http://blog.emmasdiary.co.uk/2012/08/its-common.html
This is one of many posts I have written about dealing with our grieve with Rhianna Lily, http://andthenallithoughtaboutwasyou.com/rhiannalily/2012/06/14/the-things-people-say-and-do/
Here is one post that I had written for a blog prompt, about losing our second little boy, stillborn at 32 weeks.
http://mothergoutte.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/5-years-on.html
Here are a couple I have written – the first when I lost a baby last summer and the second this week after reading a few articles that had really hurt me
http://www.muddlingalongmummy.com/2011/07/14/this-baby-was-real-to-me/
http://www.muddlingalongmummy.com/2012/09/03/apologies-in-advance-but-this-needs-saying/
Count me in
Here is my post about my rare type of ectopic pregnancy
http://lucysmadhouse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/saying-goodbye.html I had trouble getting the badge code to work properly from my iPad, not sure what I was doing wrong so have posted the image
Here are the series of posts I’ve written about miscarriage: http://chloewitters.wordpress.com/tag/miscarriage-2/
Harder than I thought it would be, but here it is:
http://life-with-liv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/saying-goodbye.html
here is my post about my miscarriages http://www.savette.com/blog/saying-goodbye/
I have written a few times about miscarriage as I feel it is so important that people feel they can share and grieve openly.
Mich x
http://mdplife.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-did-you-say-goodbye.html
http://mdplife.blogspot.com/2011/10/sadly-so-many-of-us-have-miscarried.html
http://mdplife.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-time-last-year-i-was-very-sad.html
http://mdplife.blogspot.com/2010/11/due-date-today.html
http://mdplife.blogspot.com/2010/11/due-date-today.html
As many of you are aware we have only just lost our beautiful son Harry so my blog is currently full of posts about our loss, our turmoil & grieving process. I am not sure whether you are looking for just a “one off” post or several but I am finding being able to blog about the feelings we are currently going through is helping me process the devastating loss we have had. The posts can be found on http://www.teamlloyd.com
Here’s my recent post sharing the dream I had about my daughter Polly who was stillborn.
http://pollyrabbit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/i-dreamed-dream.html
I am thrilled to be a Saying Goodbye Champion, spreading the word about the services; but I am also pushing for churches in this country to offer memorials and support to families whose babies die. I gave a talk to church leaders this summer about it And shared my story; here’s what i said llmcalling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/a-baby-dies-how-do-we-mourn-talk.html?m=1