Your stories help raise awareness of the issues surrounding stillbirth and neonatal death, and also help other bereaved parents to understand that they are not alone.
Janelle's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Emma's connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Emily's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Paul and Jo's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
James' connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Donna's connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Bhavna's connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Sarah's connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Jeanne's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Jean's Connection For our Together, we are Sands campaign, we are celebrating the impact of the connections made within and beyond the Sands community. Read this story
Claire's Connection 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. Read this story
Leanne and Mikes' story 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 Read this story
Tanya and Gary's story Good friends of bereaved parents organise event and raise funds for Sands. Read this story
Gemma's story 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. Read this story
Sonika's story "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." Read this story