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Last
year during miscarriage awareness week on Sunday 19th March,
The Miscarriage Association launched 500 balloons from 10
different locations to represent the 5000 miscarriages that
happen every week. We were one of those locations. Elly
organised the event, the balloons, the location and even convinced
our local MP to turn up.
On the
day Elly and myself spent a busy morning blowing up 500 balloons
with helium and tying them up by hand ( we had the blisters
to prove it.) If it hadn't been for the balloon company, The
Perfect Touch, who stayed to help we would never have managed
it.
We were
lucky to have a beautiful clear day with a blue sky. A large
handful of people turned up to watch. Elly said a few words
and I said a prayer. A few moments later 500 yellow balloons
were drifting slowly into the sky. For those who understood
what the balloons represented it was a beautiful moment. All
was quiet and many shed a tear.
A quiet
memorial to our lost babies.
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An
Article from the Evening Telegraph
Miscarriage
heartbreak gets a lift with event: by Gemma
Towle
Women
from the Grimsby area who have suffered a miscarriage, are
being invited to a special event at the start of National
Miscarriage Awareness Week.
Nationally
5,000 balloons are to be released to symbolise the approximate
5,000 miscarriages experienced in the country every week.
In Grimsby, the local Miscarriage Support Group will be letting
off 500 balloons in a similar ceremony in a bid to raise awareness
and encourage people who have experienced a miscarriage, to
get in touch.
Elly
Dolan, one of the founder members of the group, said she wanted
people to understand just how common miscarriages are.
"It is
to raise awareness of just how common miscarriage is and to
get people talking," she said. "We want people to know that
they are not on their own and there is somewhere to go for
help." National Miscarriage Awareness Week starts on Sunday,
and runs until March 26. Representatives of the support group
and members of SANDS (Still and Neo Natal Deaths Society),
will be attending the event and will be available to speak
to anyone needing information or help. Cleethorpes MP Shona
McIsaac will officially release the balloons at 3pm at the
rear of the main Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital building
on Scartho Road, Grimsby.
The Grimsby
and District Miscarriage Support Group meets on the first
Monday of every month between 7.30pm and 9pm off Ward B1.
Everyone
is welcome to attend and a library of books about miscarriages
is available through the group.
Article
courtesy of The Grimsby Evening Telegraph
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