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A little help from Jack, Launceston (2025)

02/07/2025

🤍 books - baby loss 🤍

Beyond Grief by Pippa Vosper

Synopsis: Pippa Vosper tragically lost her son Axel in 2017, when she was five months pregnant, and has since written about miscarriage and baby loss online and in a series of pieces for Vogue. Beyond Grief: Navigating the Journey of Pregnancy and Baby Loss is the book she wishes had been available when her son died. It covers every aspect of pregnancy and baby loss at any stage, from the practical to the emotional, with advice from experts and stories from women who have been through it themselves. Beyond Grief offers both an inclusive perspective and a guiding hand to anyone who has experienced any kind of pregnancy loss, as well as those who are trying to support them through it.

Beyond Grief also contains interviews with experts and other women who have experienced losses of their own, including Elizabeth Day, Leandra Medine Cohen, Melissa Odabash, Jools Oliver, Alexandra Stedman and Latham Thomas

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29/05/2025

My reminder.

Everyone parents in different ways. Everyone grieves in different ways.

I’m not good at sitting with my grief. I wish I was. I would definitely be described as an instrumental griever rather than an intuitive griever. A little help was born out of frustration, grief and love and beautiful encouragement from others. A need to do something because there was nothing. Not everyone needs to do but I did. I still do. And over time I’ve found myself doing more things, saying yes to every single opportunity or request. And at times, with everything else life brings, it can feel like a lot.

But this is why I do it. I do it because of him and for him. And for all the other babies that deserved much much more. I do it because this is how I grieve and how I parent him.

Thank you for ever so gently asking me why the work with the Stillbirth CRE bereaved parents advocacy committee, and in turn, “a little help” and all the work in this space matters to me. It has been the perfect reminder for me.

28/05/2025

🤍 resources - information & training 🤍

IMPROVE workshops - Stillbirth CRE

In partnership with the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ), the Stillbirth CRE has developed IMPROVE – IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education.

IMPROVE face-to-face workshops and eLearning modules are designed to address the educational needs of health professionals involved in maternity and newborn care in managing perinatal death based on the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand’s Perinatal Mortality Guideline.

This includes supporting healthcare professionals respond to women and families who have experienced stillbirth, conduct perinatal autopsy and mortality reviews, and communicate with bereaved parents.

Find out more at https://stillbirthcre.org.au/researchers-clinicians/education-and-workshops/improve-workshops

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28/05/2025

🤍 books - baby loss 🤍

a diary to my babies by Carmen Grover

Synopsis: A six-year journey: six losses and three beautiful angels. After losing her son Jude in August 2020, a spark was ignited in Carmen Grover as she read through every diary that she kept for each of her babies. Rather than have them remain stacked under her bed, Carmen decided that her journals would make a difference. The result has been an honest and poignant compilation of the ups and downs of Carmen’s experience with pregnancy loss, from rolling in the grass and convulsing on the kitchen floor in her cycle of grief, to seeing the strength she could gain in the signs and special moments all around her. A Diary to My Babies: Journeying Through Pregnancy Loss shines a light on the darkness of pregnancy loss, while also showing there is no right way to grieve. And through her incredible journey, Carmen hopes the story of her family and her babies just might help others to heal.

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28/04/2025

🤍 keepsakes 🤍

Sew Loved by Luna

Created by Chloe in honour of her daughter, beautiful Luna ✨

Chloe creates very special hand embroidery keepsake knits for earthside babies as well as beautiful jellycat knits which are perfect keepsakes for angel babies (both pictured bottom left). She has a pre embroidered range and can also customise these knits especially for you.

Keep an eye out on her socials for limited edition releases such as these gorgeous bunny ornaments for Easter (bottom right) 🐰

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14/03/2025

🤍 workbooks & journals 🤍

In Your Own Time - A Guided Grief Journal by Chantelle Anderson

From www.griefandco.com.au:

A meaningful gift for you or someone you love. A simple place to start, in your time.

A 225 page companion for the constant that is grief written by Chantelle Anderson with contributions from grief specialists Doris Zagdanski and Dr Liz Crowe. In your own time is a space to ugly cry, journal, gather moments of ah-ha from like-minded stories and more.

Once everyone’s lives have gone back to normal and you are still staring into space wondering what just happened. Grief really does suck but know that there is care among the sour in the form of our fingers crossed helpful, sympathy gifts and grief resources.

“All the lasagna dishes have been returned, and the flowers going in the bin remind you why you opened this journal. Your life has been turned upside down. You might be exhausted. You could have the grief fog, the nothing stares, no motivation. Maybe you’ve had another day of ugly cries or maybe you just can’t cry at all. Perhaps you’ve been grieving for some time and don’t even know how you feel. It’s the worst club you have ever joined. You never signed up and you can’t unsubscribe. Life is hard right now. It’s not what it was before grief … or ‘BG’. You’re not the same person. What kind of person are you? Will anyone like the new me? Nothing is going to feel ‘good’ again. Self-care could be the last on the list and opening this journal might have taken most of your will power! “

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The sympathy gift for you or them that supports in the days, weeks and years that follow loss

What is in this guided grief journal?
- stories from others
- activities that relate to all kinds of grief & moments in life
- wisdom from professionals
- weekly check ins
- quotes
- space to reflect
- extra journaling pages
- journal prompts

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23/01/2025

🤍 keepsakes - art & prints 🤍

Liana Lane Art. Liana Lane Art

via etsy: www.etsy.com/au/shop/LianaLaneArt

Digital Download - Birth Flowers & Memorial Prints

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17/01/2025

🤍 information resources 🤍

Kids Grief Support
www.kidsgriefsupport.com

Helping grieving children process and cope with difficult life events through play and developmentally appropriate modalities. In-person and Virtual Services for Children and Families throughout the United States and internationally.

Helping children process, understand and cope with major life events such as death of a sibling, parent or other significant person or pet, preparing for and/or attending a funeral or memorial service, life limiting or terminal diagnosis in the family, new diagnosis in the family, other life change or transition causing stress, anxiety or grief.

Services include in person or virtual sessions with children, teenagers as well as consultations with parents & caregivers where guidance and support unique to you and your situation will be provided.

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A certified child life specialist with 16 years in the healthcare setting, Jessica has a passion for supporting children going through difficult life experiences, particularly after the stillbirth of her daughter Maggie.

Jessica shares really helpful information & resources on her instagram page such as ways to help kids honour and express their grief, activities for difficult days, common questions children have and tips and explanations for caregivers.

Jessica has also published children’s grief books including
Forever Connected, The ABCs of Grief, and The ABCs of Grief: Emotions & Feelings (currently available for pre-order)

She also has a list on her website of 125 recommended grief books for children www.kidsgriefsupport.myflodesk.com/griefbooks

Learn more here www.kidsgriefsupport.com

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15/12/2024

🤍 digital Christmas Wreaths by 🤍

https://stillaware.org/support/still-aware-christmas-wreaths

This festive season Still Aware would like to help honour your baby or babies with a personalised Christmas Wreath.

The Still Aware digital wreaths are designed by volunteers each year and personalised with your child’s name and birth date.

The volunteers, who are either staff, bereaved parents or a friend or relative of a bereaved parent, will upload these wreaths to their Still Aware page twice - Once on the 10th of December, and when submissions close 5pm (Adelaide time) on the 17th December 2024, where you will then be able to honour your baby during the Christmas period.

Together we remember and honour all babies chasing butterflies in the sky ✨

These digital wreaths are created as a gift from one parent to another, at no cost. So please consider making an optional donation of $10 to help continue this fantastic initiative for years to come.

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06/12/2024

Every day I imagine what you what look like.

A vibrant living breathing mixture of your dad and me. You have Adeline’s face and chin, Lydia’s eyes and hair, my mouth and your dad’s grin.

Every day I dream of you and what it would be if you were here with us.

Your little feet running down the hall. You turn around and give me the most mischievous grin with your sparkling brown eyes and you run straight into my arms.

Every day I think of you and what you could have been.

I hope you’re exploring all the beautiful places I’ll never be able to take you until I get to see you again.

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Art by Amelia’s mum .to.amelia.rae

08/11/2024

Hello to our followers - old and new 👋🏼 🤍

We’re so sorry you have reason to follow this page but glad you’ve found us.

We hope through our companions you can find something that might help you - whether it be navigating those early months of brutal earth shattering grief, continuing to find ways to honour and parent your baby, listening to other peoples stories to help you navigate your own devastating loss or finding out how you can support a bereaved family.

There are some amazing supports, information & resources out there but it can be hard to find them when you need them most - so we collated it all into a hard copy companion so you can flick through it and find something that might resonate with you. It’s exactly what we wish we had when our little boy unexpectedly died at full term.

From time to time we share these resources and more here on our Instagram page but our primary aim is to ensure that all families receive these companions at a time when they need them most. We sincerely thank the organisations and hospitals who are helping us achieve this goal.

If you’d like to know more, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We love hearing from you.

Much love, Jack’s family 🤍🤍🤍

➡️ Nov 2024 ➡️ March 2024 ➡️ Feb 2023.

31/10/2024

🤍 biscuits - by Kisses from Blair 🤍

Spreading love by creating delicious delights.

Blair’s mum the beautiful Elle, makes the most divine biscuits for anyone and everyone but specialises in cookies for heavenly birthdays, inspired by her first born Blair.

In Elle’s own words: “Spoiling our babies in heaven is my love language and why I started Kisses from Blair. I want to celebrate their birthdays in heaven with as much fanfare as people celebrate their children who are earthside.”

If you’re looking for a special gift or way to honour your baby I could not recommend her biscuits highly enough.

It’s not only Elle’s immense talent and attention to detail but her ability to find the right stamp, colour and detail. Her page is filled with stories behind her creations and she nails the brief each and every time. They are true creations from her kind and thoughtful heart. There is nothing like her work.

And yes. They taste as good as they look.

In these photos she shares the special biscuits she made for Jack’s third birthday and in her own words the most beautiful story behind them.

Thank you Ellena and Blair ✨

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