Baby Loss Awareness Week is a national awareness week that is observed each year between 9th - 15th October, culminating with the Global Wave of Light.
- Remember much loved and missed babies and honour their memories - Raise awareness of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss - Drive change
Aching Arms works collaboratively with many other charities throughout the year as part of the Baby Loss Awareness Week Alliance.
We know that the week can be difficult for many families who have experienced the heartbreak of pregnancy and baby loss and that’s why we want to remind you we are always here for you, whether you lost your baby recently or many years ago and what ever your experience is – we don’t want you to go through it alone.
If you’d like to find out about how we can support you, please take a look at our support page here.
There are many ways to get involved in the week, whether you are remembering a baby special to you, navigating helping others experiencing pregnancy or baby loss, or as a valued supporter of the work we do.
" The impact of Baby Loss Awareness Week reaches far beyond seven days. It starts conversations, challenges stigma, improves support for bereaved families, and ensures that babies who died too soon are remembered with love. "
This Baby Loss Awareness Week, you can help ensure bereaved families know they are not alone by donating a bear in memory of a baby who is loved and missed.
Every bear donation helps Aching Arms place a comfort bear into the arms of a family facing the heartbreak of loss, offering a tangible reminder that their baby matters and will always be remembered.
By dedicating a bear here, you can honour a special baby while helping us reach more families across the UK.
Show your support this Baby Loss Awareness Week with our range of remembrance items, including our BLAW pin badge, candles, cards and gifts.
Whether you're remembering your own baby, supporting someone you care about, or helping raise awareness, every purchase helps fund the support Aching Arms provides to bereaved families.
Wear your badge with pride and help start important conversations about baby loss.
Visit our online gift shop here.
Miles in Memory is our annual fundraising challenge that brings people together to remember babies who are deeply loved and forever missed.
Whether you walk, run, wheel or swim, every mile completed helps raise vital funds so more bereaved families can receive support when they need it most.
Join our community this October and remember together, mile by mile.
Sign up here.
Join thousands of families around the world for the Wave of Light on 15th October and take a moment to remember a baby who is loved and missed. By lighting a candle at 7pm and leaving it burning for at least one hour, you'll become part of a global chain of remembrance that honours babies gone too soon. You can make your tribute even more special by purchasing one of our remembrance candles from the Aching Arms shop here. Every candle purchased not only creates a meaningful moment of reflection, but also helps fund our support for bereaved families, ensuring more parents know they are not alone in their grief. Together, we remember every baby and keep their memory shining brightly.
Baby loss affects thousands of families every year, yet many employers feel unsure about how best to support someone who is grieving.
Our workplace bereavement training and consultancy helps organisations build compassionate, informed workplaces where people feel seen, understood and supported.
By partnering with Aching Arms, your organisation can make a meaningful difference to employees navigating loss.
Email: Helen@achingarms.co.uk to find out more information.
Help us raise awareness and show support for bereaved families by turning your world pink and blue. Whether you're an individual, school, workplace, community group or local business, there are so many ways to get involved.
Dress in pink and blue, decorate your office or shop window, encourage staff to wear pink and blue for the day, light up your building, landmark or workspace, host a themed bake sale, or organise a pink and blue fundraising event.
Every conversation started and every display created helps raise awareness of baby loss and reminds grieving families that they are not alone. Ideas to get involved: - Host a pink and blue dress-down day - Light up your building, office or local landmark - Decorate shop windows, receptions or staff rooms - Hold a pink and blue bake sale or coffee morning - Share pink and blue photos on social media
Bereavement is something that touches every community, yet conversations about grief can be difficult. As bereavement is now recognised within the school curriculum, Baby Loss Awareness Week provides an opportunity to promote understanding, empathy and awareness of loss in an age-appropriate way. By creating opportunities to talk about grief and remembrance, schools can help not only their staff but children and young people develop compassion and better support friends, classmates, families and colleagues who may be affected. To support this, Aching Arms, Footprints Baby Loss and Petals have worked together, as members of the Baby Loss Awareness Week Alliance, to develop a range of educational resources for schools.
Created with the support of professionals with educational expertise and informed by specialist bereavement knowledge, these resources are designed to help schools approach conversations around loss, remembrance and empathy with confidence, sensitivity and care.
Access the resources here.
At Aching Arms, we receive no government funding and rely on the kindness, generosity and commitment of our supporters to continue our work.
As demand for our services continues to grow, we are supporting more bereaved families than ever before, ensuring they receive comfort, acknowledgement and compassionate support following the loss of a baby.
Every donation helps us provide comfort bears, remembrance opportunities, support resources and training that help families know they are not alone.
This Baby Loss Awareness Week, your gift can help us reach even more parents, and families navigating the heartbreak of baby loss.
Make a donation here.
07464 508994 support@achingarms.co.uk
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