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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

