Your story matters.

I lost you… Amelia I miss you.

Enough love for a lifetime - by Megan Gaffney

"We’ll love him for a thousand years" - Dedicated to the memory of Leo Wilder Keast

Ayla Joy, my moonlight angel

My Noah, changing the world in so many ways

Cramming a Lifetime into Three Days - by Abbie Sydenham

Luka's Story - by Bella Cruickshank

You Are Not Alone - by Bonnie Jean

A Letter to my Grandson - by Andrea Fuller

13 Minutes Too Long - by Shaye Helenius

When you wake up the day after losing your baby, your world just falls apart all over again.

Luna's story by Nicola Rowett

Everyday I remind myself that Eve is our precious gift. A gift that will forever keep on giving.

I will be forever grateful Adam spoke up about taking Blair home, even if just for a few hours.

We had a textbook pregnancy with no dramas. Kiera was born at 40 weeks and 6 days after an uneventful induction. It was all smooth sailing until about the last half hour of labour when I spiked a fever.

I have a baby. Her name is Elke, and she died. That doesn’t mean you can’t speak her name. In fact, I want to talk about her. I am desperate to talk about her.

Anne then had labour induced and a few hours later our little boy came into the world, beautiful but not breathing.

Bella Rizk is our precious angel. Forever in our hearts. She will always be our first born.

I was also drawn to caring for those families who had a lost a baby. It’s such an incredibly important role as a midwife and nurse.

Kora - A surprise at the least, an overload of happiness and abundance of love.

My stillborn baby still counts as my child.

Our first born child and love of our lives!

Stillbirth affects the whole family, not just the parents of the stillborn baby; Stillbirth is part of our family now.

Stillbirth challenges your mental stability every single day.

Our family has never been the same. There is always a daughter, a sister, a granddaughter who is missing.

We published the Sydney Stillbirth Study in 2015. Since then, the rate of late-pregnancy stillbirth has been falling.

Our third daughter Georgie was born silent and still on June 7th 2020 at 37 weeks. This is our story.

I love you but as I cannot hold your hand as we walk this life together, I will, forever carry your beautiful soul in my heart.

This father asked me if Summer was my first child and at first I said yes, my first other than my stepson Max, but I corrected myself and said “no we actually lost a baby this time last year”.

His force is a part of my life’s journey, never to be denied.

I stare down at my little girl. Her perfectly shaped rosy lips. Her cute button nose. Her closed peaceful eyes.

Our beautiful boy was born into this world too early to survive and too early to be recognised.

The most striking thing is the silence. There’s no baby’s first scream and cry, there’s nothing. Pia looks like a normal baby girl, just tiny.

I still find myself wondering what you were wearing for your first day in church.

I never knew that the love of one little person could be so, so powerful.

The Golden Cycling Club opened a new mountain bike trail in Golden, British Columbia called “The Mighty Quinn” in honour of our son Quinn.

Talking about stillbirth and our stillbirth experience, is a lifelong venture.

“There’s no fetal heart” the words that will forever be on repeat inside my head. 

We decided on her name while on our baby moon in Vanuatu.  She was a part of our family long before her birth. 

I have no memories of Baby Evangelista. I only remember going into labour on March the 7th 1999.

Mother’s Day was never meant to sting.  But then there are the rest of us… 

Dearest family and friends, I understand many of you will want to know what’s happened to me and Dave over the past few weeks.

In loving memory of Maurice Stanley Cummings

We conceived our second baby boy three months after our precious first born son, Ari, was born still. Were we ready?

I have two children: one living, the other an angel baby. 

Yasemin Trollope, owner of Rite of Passage Funerals, discusses the common questions around planning a funeral for your baby.

Stillbirth Foundation Australia Founder, Emma McLeod's story.

I’ve spent 25 years in the field of midwifery and I’ve come to know it as a world full of joy but also sadness, with not much grey in between.

Australia is one of the safest countries in the world to give birth, but even then, the outcomes of all pregnancies are not equal.

I hope our story can help to lessen the taboo associated with discussing stillbirth and miscarriage because sadly it’s a real thing that real people go through far too often in Australia.

Speaking to students and clinicians I advocate for recognition first and foremost. This child is much loved and much wanted. This child has a name. This child has a story.

My journey with stillbirth goes back over 30 years. I realized there were huge gaps in terms of what we knew about stillbirth and what remained a mystery, and why.

Sometimes ‘being there’ was literally all I could do. So I just stayed close and made sure he knew I was there.

My Mum, Christine, went to hospital four times to give birth.  She only came home with a baby twice. 

Even today I feel a sadness when I think of losing her.

Alexander was silent when he was delivered, and I remember kissing him on the head and knowing that he was too ill to survive.

Stillbirth. I've read about it, but never dreamed it would happen to me.

Goodbye for now.