International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is held on October 15th every year.
In 1988 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed October as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month in the United States of America. It has since been adopted around the world and recognises the loss so many parents experience.
Robyn Bear, founder of www.october15th.com envisioned a day when grieving parents could come together, be surrounded by love and support from their families and friends, a day where the community could better understand their pain and learn to reach out to those grieving. It is a time to reflect on the loss and embrace the love. While our babies' lives were brief, they were also very meaningful. However in our society there seems to be little time to talk about them, they can appear forgotten, this day allows us to unite in love and light and honour our precious little ones.
We invite you to join us in the world wide candle lighting ceremony at 7pm on October 15th
If people across all time zones light a candle at 7pm their time and leave it burning for at least 1 hour we will create a continuous wave of light around the globe in loving memory of our babies.
Tigerlily Trust Remembrance Celebration 2013
Tuesday 15th October 2013
Venus and Cupid Statue, Meet at Morecambe Golf Club. 7pm
Hello everyone, we have a date for your diary! We are going to hold a Remembrance Celebration on Tuesday October 15th 2013 at the Venus and Cupid statue on Morecambe Prom meet at Morecambe Golf Club just across the road, where we will start our celebration. This is a special date, it's International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, and at 7pm we will light candles and be part of the global wave of light around the world! It will be an evening of remembering and honouring our babies, sharing and connecting with those who have travelled this path and those who helped us to travel it, a beautiful celebration of our loved ones, our families and friends. There will be music, poetry, readings and the chance to take part in a lantern release in memory of your loved one/s, Weather permitting!
If you think you would like to come along, please join our event on Facebook, this will help us in planning the event. We are asking for a small donation per person just to cover the cost of the venue and putting on the celebration, £3.
Thank you, love and light, Val xx
October 15th International Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day + Global Wave of Light
We are very grateful to Scott and Claire for their generous hospitality in hosting us for our annual Remembrance Celebration. We invite you to join us for a very special evening remembering and celebrating all our babies and children gone to soon.
On this special date, we will light candles and be part of the global wave of light around the world. It will be an evening of remembering and honouring our babies, sharing and connecting with those who have travelled this path and those who help us to travel it.
If you would like to come along, please join our event on Facebook - to help us prepare for accommodating you.
Doors open 6pm please come early to allow time for candle lighting and putting an angel on our remembrance tree in memory of your baby or child.
There will be tea and coffee afterwards and time to talk and connect with each other.
We hope to see you there, message or email Val with any questions you may have, I will do my best to answer - enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk
We understand that some of you may wish to join us for the Remembrance Celebration but be unable to attend - with this in mind we would like to offer you a way to include your precious babies too. If you send us their name in an email we will honour them by lighting a candle for them and speaking their name with all our babies during the ceremony.
United we honour our precious ones, together we help each other to heal.
Love and blessings, Val x x x