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A little help from Jack, Launceston (2025)

19/10/2025

a little help from Lily

a practical resource companion for child loss and paediatric palliative care in collaboration with

This companion is for families navigating:
- where their little one will be born alive but may not live for very long,
- those in palliative care beginning to explore memory-making options, and to prepare for and understand what’s possible at end of life,
- or for those facing a sudden loss of a living child.

Importantly it is also for those wanting to know how to support them including family, friends and health providers.

Find out more at www.alittlehelpfromjack.com.au/the-companions.

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Created in honour of Lily Sujata Calvert

19/10/2025

a little help from Jack

a practical resource companion for pregnancy and infant loss

This companion is for families navigating pregnancy or infant loss at any age or gestation; in particular stillbirth.

Importantly it is also for those wanting to know how to support them including family, friends and health providers.

Find out more at www.alittlehelpfromjack.com.au/the-companions.

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Created in honour of Jack Robert Waldron

19/10/2025

a little help from Remy

a practical resource companion for termination for medical reasons in collaboration with

This companion is for families navigating termination for medical reasons at any gestation.

Importantly it is also for those wanting to know how to support them including family, friends and health providers.

Find out more at www.alittlehelpfromjack.com.au/the-companions.

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Created in honour of Remy Asher Donaldson

17/10/2025

🤍 books - general grief 🤍

This is Grief - a gentle guide for individuals and families
learningthroughloss.org.au

Developed by Palliative Care Tasmania, written by Jess Sanders, illustrated by Steph Spartels and funded by the Tasmanian Department of Health.

‘This Is Grief’ is a beautifully designed and illustrated resource that supports individuals and families to navigate grief and loss of any kind. The resource addresses the following questions that many grievers have:

🧡What is grief?

🧡What can I expect to feel?

🧡Is what I am feeling normal?

🧡Will it get better?

🧡What helps?

🧡How do I support a child or young person?

🧡How do I support someone through grief?

🧡Where can I find professional support?

Available to order at https://pallcaretas.squarespace.com/products/grief-books (Free for Tasmanians and available for a very small fee for anyone living outside Tas).

You can download an e-book or printable PDF at https://learningthroughloss.org.au/resources

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04/10/2025

Jack is 4 🤍🤍🤍🤍

Today we remember Jack on his fourth birthday.

In his memory, we invite you to “pay forward a little help from Jack.”

These companions wouldn’t exist without him. Through your kindness, Jack’s legacy continues – providing a little help to families during their most difficult times.

With love and gratitude,
Emily, Nick, Lydia & Adeline
🤍 alittlehelpfromjack.com.au

30/09/2025

🤍 workbooks & journals 🤍

The Baby Loss Journal by The Lily Flower

A digital download guided grief journal for all types of baby loss.

With prompts, advice and support from experts & loss parents designed to travel with you through your grief.

Developed by a psychologist, edited by a baby loss mother and reviewed by parents with lived expereience, this digital product can be downloaded and printed, loaded onto One Note/ Good Reader to use a digital journal or worked on directly in Canva.

With full personal use editing scope you can change colour schemes, artwork and any elements to personalise this for your personal use.

Available at www.thelilyflower.com.au

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22/09/2025

🤍 information resources - free eLearning course 🤍

Caring for the Carer - Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence

Supporting those who support families.

If you’re a midwife, GP, nurse, social worker, counsellor — or anyone who walks alongside families after perinatal loss — this new online resource is for you.

Caring for the Carer is a free eLearning course designed to nurture and support health professionals. It offers:

👉 Gentle emotional self-awareness
👉 Practical self-care strategies
👉 Evidence-based tools to build resilience

Created by health professionals, for health professionals, and aligned with the national IMPROVE education program, this course reflects our shared commitment to compassionate, best-practice care.

Explore the course: learn.stillbirthcre.org.au

Developed by the Stillbirth CRE in collaboration with Stillbirth Foundation Australia and PSANZ - Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand

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16/09/2025

“This isn’t for us, or our babies. It’s for those who come after.” 💔

Every day in Australia, six babies are stillborn. That’s over 2,000 lives lost every year — a number that hasn’t changed in more than two decades.

We know this pain intimately. We are not asking for sympathy, we are asking for solidarity.

We are fighting so that the six babies tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, have a chance to come home.

Some stillbirths are preventable. Research shows that with better education, antenatal monitoring, and national public awareness, lives can be saved.

But here in Australia, progress is fragmented, underfunded, and inconsistent. That’s why we need action.

🤍 We need your signature to secure government support for a National Stillbirth Awareness Campaign

We’re aiming for 100,000 signatures by 19 September 2025 — a powerful signal that Australians care and demand change.

🤍 This is more than awareness.
This is about action, and giving future families a chance at a different ending.

🤍 Sign the petition [link in bio]
🤍 Share this post. Be part of the movement.

15/09/2025

🤍 books - poetry & prose 🤍

The Dovekeeper & the Death of a Child by Till Heike

In “The Dovekeeper”, Till Heike explores the unimaginable pain and profoundly life changing experience of a parent coping with the death of their baby. Through a series of reflections and poetic works, Till delves into the experience with a raw emotion and open heart. This book is a testament to the enduring love that transcends death, and a source of comfort and understanding for those who are themselves experiencing this heartbreak.

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After the death of her daughter Claudia in 2014, Till Heike changed paths to be able to provide support and care to others who have experienced the death of a child. Predominately working with SANDS – Stillbirth and Newborn Death Support, and Red Nose Grief and Loss Australia – formally SIDS & Kids.

As an author, she had published a book of poetry, “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” and contributed to From Mother to Mother: On the Loss of a Child. As an artist she was commissioned to provide the artwork for both the Australian Capital Territory, and Victorian Governments for their respective Commemorative Certificates to acknowledge those families who did not get to take their babies home.

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01/09/2025

🤍 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 🤍

Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured on the NASA website with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Find the day your baby was born by going. to:

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepixFull.html

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Pictured here:

The first image is from the 4th of October 2021. This is the day everything changed for us. This is the day we found out our baby’s heart had stopped

“When Mice Collide”

These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as the “Mice” because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. The long tails are created by the relative difference between gravitational pulls on the near and far parts of each galaxy. Because the distances are so large, the cosmic interaction takes place in slow motion — over hundreds of millions of years. These galactic mice will probably collide again and again over the next billion years so that, instead of continuing to pull each other apart, they coalesce to form a single galaxy.

The second is from the 5th of October 2021. Jack was born in the early hours of the 5th of October, two weeks before his due date.

“Sunrise at the South Pole”

Sunrise at the South Pole is different - caused by the tilt of the Earth as it orbits the Sun, not by the rotation of the Earth. Although at a pole, an airless Earth would first see first Sun at an equinox, the lensing effect of the Earth’s atmosphere and the size of the solar disk causes the top of the Sun to appear about two-weeks early. Pictured two weeks ago, the Sun peeks above the horizon of a vast frozen landscape at Earth’s South Pole. The true South Pole is just a few meters to the left of the communications tower. This polar sunrise capture was particularly photogenic as the Sun appeared capped by a green flash.

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11/08/2025

The 2025 ‘Waves of Change’ conference - “Birth and perinatal care”

This 2 day conference featured a lineup of international and national multidisciplinary speakers, delivering insights into the latest advancements in birth, perinatal care, stillbirth prevention and bereavement care. An absolute must if you are a practitioner or researcher in this space. Watch out for the conference next year due for the Gold Coast.

This year it was an absolute privilege to be part of the panel on day 2 alongside bereaved parents, Liam’s dad Chris and DJ’s mum Edith , Associate Professor Zoe Bradfield, Professor David Ellwood AO, Dr Christine Andrews and Paula Dillon . All incredible people.

In the limited opportunity we had, we briefly shared our experiences and reflected on what bereaved parents need and want, in front of practitioners, researchers and policy makers who can help improve the quality of care and make a difference to the families that will inevitably follow ours. We touched on the importance of exposure of junior health practitioners to bereavement care, continuity of care with health practitioners having the knowledge of support services and organisations and taking that minute to ensure families have access to them, and scan anxiety in PAL and what can be done to assist families navigating it.

Thank you for those who supported us and for the positive feedback. It’s not easy to speak in front of practitioners and experts in this field but lived experience is so important.

For Jack, Liam and DJ and all the other babies ✨

11/08/2025

The 2025 Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence & Bereaved Parent Advocacy Committee Workshop was held on Thursday in Brisbane bringing together the working committee of bereaved parents, researchers, clinicians, policy leaders and community advocates from across the country.

We focused on the National Stillbirth Action and Implementation Plan launched in 2020, what has been achieved so far and what must still be done.

The day was a humbling reminder that incredible people have been working SO hard to advocate and reduce the rate of preventable stillbirth and improve care, but at the same time there is SO far to go and not nearly enough resources, funding, collaboration and support. A nationally concerted effort is required.

BPAC will continue to support parent involvement in research & contribute to submissions, with our purpose being “a commitment to making a difference, to moving forward, to advocate for what’s needed, to making sure no story is left unheard and no opportunity for change is missed.”

If you are a bereaved parent and interested in participating in some form of research, then please consider signing up to the Research Involvement Registry available on the Stillbirth CRE website where you will go on the mailing list.

To get started, have a read of the online guide “Getting Involved in Stillbirth Research: a guide for bereaved parents”

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