Mia Freedman
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 190
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When you've lost a baby, the path you must travel is yours alone. There's no shortcut. No Bandaid. No silver lining. But by hearing from others who have walked that same path, the blackness is illuminated just a little. We've been there. We know how you feel. We can't change what's happened and we can't bring back your baby, but we can light your way through the dark. A note about this book: Never Forgotten is one of those special books that exists thanks to contributions from many authors who have so kindly shared their wealth of professional experience, loving words, personal stories, and poems with us. When Bec and I decided to produce this book, we reached out to women we knew and women we didn't via Mamamia.com.au and asked for contributions. We were overwhelmed with the response. Sorting through all of your stories was a heartbreaking task and while we and the book's amazing editor, Paula Ellery, wish we could have included every single one of them, the reality is that we received over 500 submissions and it would have been impossible to use them all. But all of your stories were incredibly touching and we thank you so much for sharing them with us. With that in mind, the authors and of Never Forgotten are many and include the following people: Mia Freedman Rebecca Sparrow Debra Bath, PhD, MAPS Deborah L. Davis, PhD Siân Horstead Lyndal Curtis Jarrod Maher Rhonda Mason Martine Oglethorpe Carly Marie Dudley Gary Sillett Dan MacDonald ... and over 100 parents and loved ones who reached out to us via our website and gave us permission to share their personal stories. We thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. We also want to thank the team at Netra Chetty Design who so generously gave their time and talent and created something so very beautiful. We never intended for this book to be a comprehensive resource guide of any kind-our aim was to share as many stories as we could to show grieving parents that they are not alone. But it soon became clear (through reading all of your stories) that there was a desperate need for helpful advice, along with information on support groups and other resources. So while the book has grown from what we originally intended, the focus is still on your stories, but they are now intertwined with articles that were either written especially for us or those that we were given permission to use from other sources. We hope that you will find some light through reading all of these words. And finally, this book was always a project of love and never intended for profit, and as such we are donating 100% of all profit to 'www.heartfelt.org.au' and 'www.sidsandkids.org'. Thanks for your support. by Mia Freedman and Rebecca Sparrow