FAMILIES across Warrington and Halton are invited to join the Butterfly Team and Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals for two commemorative events during Baby Loss Awareness Week next week.
Baby Loss Awareness Week is marked each year between 9 to 15 October, providing an opportunity for anyone affected by pregnancy and baby loss to share experiences and connect as a community.
To mark the start of the week, a special lantern walk will be hosted by the Butterfly Team, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals’ dedicated baby and pregnancy bereavement team.
The event is returning for its second year, after receiving praise from families for creating a ‘beautiful’ and ‘perfect’ way to remember babies gone too soon. Attendees are invited to decorate a pebble in memory of a special baby and walk together by lantern light to lay the pebbles in the Walton Lea Crematorium Baby Garden.
This special event will also raise money to support the creation of the Willow Tree Hub, a WHH Charity appeal to raise £200,000 for a dedicated space to support families coping with the heartbreaking loss of a baby.
Full details of the event and how to register to attend can be found on the Trust’s website: Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Trust – Butterfly Lantern Walk.
To mark the end of the week, the annual Wave of Light Service of Remembrance will take place on Wednesday, 15 October, 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm at St Elphin’s Church, Church Street, Warrington, WA1 2TL. This church service invites bereaved parents, families, and friends to come together, commemorate their babies and help break the silence around pregnancy and baby loss in the UK.
If you would like your baby’s name to be read out during the service, please contact the Chaplaincy Team by calling 01925 662146 or email [email protected] by Monday 13 October at 4pm.
There is also an opportunity for those not attending the service to join the global ‘Wave of Light’ at 7 pm, where everyone can light a candle in memory of all babies’ lives gone too soon.
For further information about Baby Loss Awareness Week visit: www.babyloss-awareness.org
Pictured top – The WHH Butterfly Team, from left Debbie Yates, Laura Barnes, and Hannah Parker, at the Butterfly Lantern Walk.
