Baby Loss Awareness Week

Each year Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK runs from 9th to 15th October. This gives bereaved parents, families and friends the opportunity to come together and remember and honour the all too brief lives of the babies who died during pregnancy, at or soon after birth and in infancy.

Philip’s Footprints are proud to be part of the ‘Baby Loss Awareness Week’ Alliance of Charities. The charities leading Baby Loss Awareness Week provide support to anyone affected by pregnancy loss and the death of a baby, and work with health professionals and services to improve care.

The week also enables us to

• spotlight baby loss awareness in the media
• consider how, as individuals and communities, we can meet the needs of bereaved parents and family members
• and work to prevent causes of these problems.

Baby Loss Awareness Week culminates with the global ‘Wave of Light’ on 15th October, which is also recognised as International Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day and where candles are lit across the globe, in memory.

We invite you to join families across the world who are lighting a candle at 7pm local time and leaving it burning for at least one hour to remember all babies that have died too soon. This can be done individually or in a group, at home or in a communal space. As it reaches 7pm in each time zone, this creates a ‘Wave of Light’ around the world.

Locally, Philip’s Footprints also holds an annual 10km Starlight Walk on the Saturday evening during Baby Loss Awareness Week.

The Fort Regent Dome lit in pink and blue, in memory of those babies who lit up our lives for such a short time.