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All those who have lost babies "ALWAYS LOVED NEVER FORGOTTEN"

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 13:47

SANDS have sent me an "ALWAYS LOVED NEVER FORGOTTEN" order form

They are YELLOW WRISTBANDS they are £2 each.

They have "ALWAYS LOVED NEVER FORGOTTEN" written on them I think

IMHO they are a lovely way to remind others of our babies.

It will also raise money for preventing more babies dying.

We are going to buy some for us and our family and friends in memory of DT1.

If anyone else is interested I can give more info off the sheet.

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 19:51

It is 10 years ago this year

And during the rest of the year it is easier than it was

But coming up to their birthday is still really hard

It just comes over me like a large wave in the ocean.

And I am back on an emotional rollercoaster

IYSWIM.

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Nemo1977 · 22/04/2005 19:57

will definetly buy one thanks Km and hugs to u hun cantimagine what you ae going through

WigWamBam · 22/04/2005 20:10

Hugs probably won't help much, but have one anyway {{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}

Thinking about you xxx

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 20:36

Thanks Nemo and WWB

Hugs are lovely, thank you

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Spacecadet · 22/04/2005 21:09

i had a stillborn baby rtkm 15 years ago and I still greive on the day I lost him and also the day he was due so I know how you must be feeling, it must bea very bittersweet thing though for I can appreciate, to be celebrating your surviving twins birthday when you should have had both of them, I dont know the circumstances in which you lost your baby but am sending you {{{hugs}}}

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 21:43

Spacecadet Thanks for the hugs for your DS

You can read about my DT1 here

and on this thread

In the next few weeks I will have good days and some not so good days and so I take it hour by hour.

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sparklymieow · 22/04/2005 21:57

have emailed Sands to get an order form. Would like something to remember the baby we lost in feb. 99. Noone talks about the baby anymore, and sometimes I do want to talk about it.. I know that DH still thinks about s/he..

sparklymieow · 22/04/2005 21:57

have emailed Sands to get an order form. Would like something to remember the baby we lost in feb. 99. Noone talks about the baby anymore, and sometimes I do want to talk about it.. I know that DH still thinks about s/he..

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 22:03

sparklymieow I didn't realise

I think that is going to be a very good reason for us all to get the wristbands because then when people ask what the YELLOW one is for we can tell them it is for our baby.

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sparklymieow · 22/04/2005 22:10

Its not something I shout about, makes people uneasy I miscarriaged in Feb 99 at 8 weeks after a missed miscariage, baby stopped growing at 5 weeks, just after my postive result, I started bleeding and was given a scan where we saw baby, but no heartbeat, was sent home to see if I stopped bleeding and to have another scan the following week (as baby was too small to see a heartbeat anyway) the next day I lost our baby I didn't have a D&C (was so upset by the miscarriage that doctor decided against an op too) and as I was still bleeding they thought that everything would come away naturally anyway, which it did. Told me months to come to terms with it all, and then I fell pregnant with DD1 the same month that baby was due...

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 22:22

My goodness SM sending you hugs {{{{{{}}}}

I think the wristbands will be good then.

Mixed emotions with finding preg with DD same month as baby due

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Spacecadet · 22/04/2005 22:22

rtkangamummy, read your thread with a lump in your throat, I can never understand people saying at least you have one, you were expecting 2 children and expected to bring 2 home, if you had older children and one died it would not be acceptable for people to say ah well at least you still have some children left. I have been unfortunate enough to have lost 4 babies in total, one stillborn and 3 misscarriages, however I do have 4 healthy happy children, my latest misscarriage was a late one 4 weeks ago at 16 weeks, so I should have been for my 20 week scan on friday last, the appt letter had come through too, got dh to throw it in the bin for me, too painful.cant look at my 12 week scan photo yet, will do when IM ready I guess.{{{hugs}}}to you as I can understand how painful it must be for you as the anniversary draws near.

sparklymieow · 22/04/2005 22:27

Misdee said to me today 'well you have been pregnant 3 times before' I had to correct her and said '4 times'... so hard to remind people.. I still wonder if baby was a boy or girl, what s/he would have looked like, etc etc, that baby would have been 5 1/2 now, at school, and I find that hard to deal with. DD1 is a beautiful little girl who is nearly 5 and I am so glad she is in my life, but I find it strange thinking that if I hadn't lose the baby she would never have been here...

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 22:29

Spacecadet My goodness that is sorry, I am lost for words really. You have been through so much. sending hugs to you {{{{{{{{}}}}}}}

And for the hospital to send a scan letter out

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RTKangaMummy · 22/04/2005 22:40

sparklymieow It must be very hard to think if your baby had been born that you wouldn't have DD Very hard to get head round that one.

Also if you see other children the age of the babies that you have lost.

I am very lucky in that respect that I know exactly what DT1 would look like as they are Identical. So I am very very pleased about that.

I still have a space on my knee when DT2 comes for a cuddle though. I still have a spare knee with no one sitting on. Just an empty space.

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RebeccasMummy · 22/04/2005 23:51

Hi Everyone

My name is Carolyn and I've been pointed in your direction regarding the new SANDS wristbands "Always Loved Never Forgotten".

If anyone would like to order them (for the moment as we are hoping to get online ordering up and running soon) please email me at [email protected] for an order form and I can either send it as a pdf file or post it to you if you provide me with your postal address.

Incidentally, if anyone is interested, to mark SANDS' Awareness Week this year we are holding a number of national balloon releases to highlight the devastation the death of a baby. These releases will be in London, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The London release will also coincide with a family fun day and the launch of our Forget me Not walk and hopefully be attended by our new patron. If any of you would like to attend or are interested in receiving further information about the day, how to get involved in the walk or to have a message tag attached to a balloon at any of the releases, please feel free to email me on the above address and again I can forward all the relevant details to you.

If I can help further in anyway I will!

Kindest regards to you all,

Carolyn Bray
Fundraising Manager, SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)

Mummy to Matthew, James and our angel Rebecca born silently 4th June 2002 @ 38weeks

marthamoo · 22/04/2005 23:59

I would like one too (have emailed Carolyn from SANDS) and have friends who I know will buy one.

Always loved, never forgotten is so true I know

RTKM...(((HUGS)))

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RTKangaMummy · 23/04/2005 00:22

RebeccasMummy

Thank you for coming on here to give further information.

When the letters arrived I thought the mumsnetters would be interested in the wristbands but I couldn't really work out an effiecent way of them getting them

I didn't feel it was right to put your home phone number on the internet.

Thank you once again for telling everybody about the other ways to remember our babies. I was going to do that on separate thread later on but it does make much more sense to put it all together.

Hopefully that will help everyone and make the process alot easier.

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RTKangaMummy · 23/04/2005 00:23

Marthamoo Thanks for hugs

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RebeccasMummy · 23/04/2005 00:34

You're welcome RTKangaMummy

I just hope that everyone likes them. I pushed for them as I think it's so important for "us" to have little things like this and being able to raise awareness in the process is really good too.

As I said before if I can help in any way further please just let me know.

LOL Carolyn

"NOT ALL SCARS SHOW
NOT ALL WOUNDS HEAL
SOMETIMES YOU CAN?T ALWAYS SEE THE PAIN SOMEONE FEELS"

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RTKangaMummy · 23/04/2005 00:37

I told DT2 about them today and he wants to wear one too.

Are there plans to make smaller ones?

He is nearly 10 years.

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RebeccasMummy · 23/04/2005 00:37

I forgot to say, that the telephone number on the form is a workline to my home rather than my personal home number. I work from home most of the time for SANDS. I have two living children, Matthew who's 7 and James who's nearly 2 and has Cystic Fibrosis so it's easier to juggle him and work from the confinements of my dining room!! But thank you for your consideration, it was very much appreciated.

Regards, Carolyn

MarsLady · 23/04/2005 00:39

have emailed and will order the wristbands

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RTKangaMummy · 23/04/2005 00:43

Thanks MarsLady you are lovely

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hunkermunker · 23/04/2005 00:46

I've emailed too, RTKM.