Category Archives: Experiences

Sharing experiences and thoughts about the loss of a child.

Oliver’s Story: The word ‘pregnancy’

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. When I first discovered I was pregnant in March 2003 I … Continue reading

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Oliver’s Story: A New Phobia

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. Ok I am not one to be scared of many things … Continue reading

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Oliver’s Story: The postnatal discussion with my OB.

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. 11 weeks after the loss of Oliver I was invited back … Continue reading

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Oliver’s Story: Trying again

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. Although it’s only been 2 and half months we have decided … Continue reading

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Oliver’s Story: Life after Ollie

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. It’s been nearly 3 months since the birth and death of … Continue reading

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Oliver’s Story: Oliver Daniel’s birth story

Oliver’s Story is a series of posts sharing the experiences of a friend as she comes to terms with the loss of her baby boy, born in October 2005. Introduction After discovering at our 20 week scan, which had already … Continue reading

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Sharing experiences – Oliver’s Story

In the very early days after we lost our angel, a friend of ours put us in contact with a few other people in our area who had gone through similar experiences. To find people who had been through the … Continue reading

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Do’s and Don’ts

I just found a really useful guide that can be given to people to help them understand how to support grieving parents. It is published by the Bereaved Parents’ Network and lists some Do’s and Don’ts suggested by bereaved parents. … Continue reading

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A simple photo effect

For us, as we only have photos of our little angel after his had gone to heaven, we find the colour photos sometimes hard to look at as they bring back a lot of the emotions from when we first … Continue reading

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Order of service for our baby

When we were initially presented with the task of deciding what we would like to put in the order of service for our baby’s funeral we were really lost. When your only memories of someone are those in utero, it … Continue reading

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