Worthing Charity Supports Baby Loss Awareness Week at Broadwater Co-op
Worthing based Acorn Pregnancy Counselling Centre will have a stand at Broadwater’s Co-Op Store to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9th to 15th October)
Baby Loss Awareness Week, now in its 22nd year, is an opportunity for everyone in the baby loss community and beyond to come together to remember and commemorate our much-loved and missed babies.
The week also provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss; the importance that bereavement support plays in the ongoing bereavement journey; and of the vital work that is needed to improve pregnancy outcomes and to save babies’ lives.
One of Acorn’s clients who experienced baby loss said: “Having counselling at Acorn helped me work through a lot of messy issues and feelings after losing a number of babies to miscarriage and termination for medical reasons. I feel so much lighter after the counselling and feel I am finally able to start letting go of the past. I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to Acorn for our sessions, it is the best thing I have done for my state of mind, thank you!”
Acorn Trustee Patrick Woodward commented, “We are pleased to be promoting Baby Loss Awareness week as supporting those who have faced such loss is a vital part of our work. Baby loss is always a tragedy and we applaud the work of Baby Loss Awareness Week in highlighting the issue. At Acorn we see many women, and also men, who have faced the loss of a baby, whether from miscarriage, stillbirth or post abortion, and we offer a place where they can explore their feelings, confidentially and free of charge, with a member of our counselling team. We are grateful to Boadwater Co-op for allowing us to set up a display.”
Baby Loss Awareness Week is recognised across the world and culminates with the “Wave of Light” on 15 October. This is a special time when people across the world light a candle at 7pm local time and leave it burning to remember all babies that have died too soon.
Acorn’s display will be at Broadwater Co-op, Cricketers Parade, from 9th – 15th October 2024