Over the next few days we spent a lot of time talking about the fundraiser and on the 15th January we set up our just giving page for the event, we have decided on 5 charities, Musgrove park Rowan suite, Musgrove park chapel, Tommy’s, little daffodils and single yellow rose. These are all amazing charities who each do their bit for the baby loss community. Both of the Musgrove park charities have played a massive part in our journey so far and we can’t thank them enough, Tommy’s is a leading charity in not only supporting families but funding research in to the prevention of baby loss and although we’ve had no direct dealings with them we feel their work is crucial in the community and then finally the 2 home based charities little daffodils and single yellow rose, these charities we’re set up by bereaved families from the same town we live in, they have both helped us in our journey, as I said previously little daffodils supply hospitals with sibling memory boxes one of which we received for Londyn and single yellow rose reached out to us the day we posted about the baby’s birth. We decided we would aim for £10,000 to be split between the charities.
So the just giving page is up, it’s all real now, in June I should have been having a baby but now I’m having my head shaved in memory of our baby, Nathan is getting his chest, back and legs waxed and we’re going to have stalls for raffles, tombolas and suchlike.
We posted the link for the just giving page on Facebook and it quickly became talked about, we attached a photo of the baby to the link, this got a lot of negative reactions, our first taste of the cruelty we had to come, this is a very Taboo subject and the world was not happy with us sharing photos. It did get the attention of a local news page, Somerset live, who contacted us and asked if they could cover our story. Given the negative comments we’d received we felt we had to do this, our baby’s story needed to be shared and the world needs educating. He wrote up a piece and sent us the draft, once we had okayed it he sent it to edit to be published. Here is the finished article if you would like to take a look.
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