mummy2alison
05-30-2007, 06:48 AM
Hello Everyone
My name is Sheryl and I live in Yorkshire, UK. My daughter Alison Hannah was born on 4th May 1985 and died on 5th May 1985 due to meconium aspiration during labour and delivery. She was 27 hours old when she died. I do have an older daughter Angela who was 3 and a half when her much longed for sister was born, she is now 25 years old and a beautiful young woman. I also have a son, Jacob who was born in 1998, a much longed for addition to our family, after a miscarriage in 1996 which left me feeling I would never be able to add to my family.
I created a website (www.geocities.com/mummy2alison (http://www.geocities.com/mummy2alison) a long time ago for Alison Hannah which tells my story in simple detail, but I haven't used it as a tool to tell the ongoing story of grief, this has been done separately in my own writings which I hope some day to have published. I have had some of my writing and a poem published in Michael Berman's (www.hygeia.org (http://www.hygeia.org)) book, Parenthood Lost. I also write lots of poetry which will be included in my book, an ongoing project.
I also belong to a wonderful UK national charitable organisation SANDS - Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society www.uk-sands.org (http://www.uk-sands.org) and they also have a support forum which I use regularly in an effort to support others in their tragic losses. I am a keen photographer, addicted to it really on a personal level. I do digital scrapbook graphics for parents on the Sands forum using pictures they already have.
Passionately, I would love to do something similar to nilmdts in the UK, as so many people I have come to know, have so very few images if none of their precious babies. I don't know where on earth I would start as the National Health Service is a very difficult area to get into and offer something new. But I do feel that SANDS will be able to assist with the formalities of getting through to the powers that be that images are just so very very crucial to the ongoing journey we take when we walk out the sanctuary of their doors.
I hope I have posted this is the right place and that I can share my daughter and my love for her in a way that reaches out to others in their sorrow.
I wish everyone, gentle moments of remembrance of their precious babies and the overriding sentiment that you are most certainly not alone. I feel your pain as well as my own.
Regards
Sheryl
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My name is Sheryl and I live in Yorkshire, UK. My daughter Alison Hannah was born on 4th May 1985 and died on 5th May 1985 due to meconium aspiration during labour and delivery. She was 27 hours old when she died. I do have an older daughter Angela who was 3 and a half when her much longed for sister was born, she is now 25 years old and a beautiful young woman. I also have a son, Jacob who was born in 1998, a much longed for addition to our family, after a miscarriage in 1996 which left me feeling I would never be able to add to my family.
I created a website (www.geocities.com/mummy2alison (http://www.geocities.com/mummy2alison) a long time ago for Alison Hannah which tells my story in simple detail, but I haven't used it as a tool to tell the ongoing story of grief, this has been done separately in my own writings which I hope some day to have published. I have had some of my writing and a poem published in Michael Berman's (www.hygeia.org (http://www.hygeia.org)) book, Parenthood Lost. I also write lots of poetry which will be included in my book, an ongoing project.
I also belong to a wonderful UK national charitable organisation SANDS - Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society www.uk-sands.org (http://www.uk-sands.org) and they also have a support forum which I use regularly in an effort to support others in their tragic losses. I am a keen photographer, addicted to it really on a personal level. I do digital scrapbook graphics for parents on the Sands forum using pictures they already have.
Passionately, I would love to do something similar to nilmdts in the UK, as so many people I have come to know, have so very few images if none of their precious babies. I don't know where on earth I would start as the National Health Service is a very difficult area to get into and offer something new. But I do feel that SANDS will be able to assist with the formalities of getting through to the powers that be that images are just so very very crucial to the ongoing journey we take when we walk out the sanctuary of their doors.
I hope I have posted this is the right place and that I can share my daughter and my love for her in a way that reaches out to others in their sorrow.
I wish everyone, gentle moments of remembrance of their precious babies and the overriding sentiment that you are most certainly not alone. I feel your pain as well as my own.
Regards
Sheryl
xxxx