Wave of Light 2013 Memorial Photos

For our little girls Molly & Grace whom we held in our arms for only a few hours but who are always in our hearts. Also remembering 3 little stars we never got to meet and all the little ones gone too soon from our lives. xxx

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Candles lit in memory of Isaac and all the other babies that were too precious to stay with us. Forever missed and always loved and remembered. x

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For our baby girl Ayla Hope Reading 1/2/12 - 4/2/12 and for all the babies that should be in our arms but instead will stay forever in our hearts x

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For my precious Louie and all his little angel companions. Forever in my heart xxx

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A candle burning brightly for Dinky and all the angels, lighting up the sky x

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Our candle shining brightly for our beautiful Imogen, all the other precious babies taken to soon and especially for baby lavelle who we laid to rest just this morning. May the world light up for you all. Love you to the moon and back Imi pops.

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Lighting a candle for Polly Skelton and all her other little angel friends

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International Wave of Light - for our little man, & all the tiny angels not with their mummies & daddies xxx

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 For our little princess Amelia-Mae Floaty kisses to all our little ones xxxx

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For Chloe and all our precious angels x

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My beautiful boy Oliver. Always in our hearts. Xxx

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A beautiful photo from Melody's mummy, Julz, who held a very special event tonight in her local Church. You can read more about this wonderful event here:
Capture Your Grief Day 15: Wave of Light

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For our baby boys x x

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For my baby boy Angel xx

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In memory of Katie 17/03/10, Taylor 27/07/97 and Max 20/01/07.

Beautiful angels playing among the stars. x

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For Seren Evelyn Jones 31/05/13

And for Bobby, Beatrice, Archie, and Kyle and all the other angels I am saddened but honoured to know about. Xxx

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Candles for my angels

Olivia Shorrock 02-04-2012 39+3 weeks pregnant

And Ben Johnson lost at 22 weeks pregnant x

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Thinking of all those beautiful angels gone too soon.  X x x

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xx Laura xx

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In memory of my forever sleeping son James x

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Thinking of my girls Emily and Beth and all the other little angels x

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xx Joseph xx

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For Seren 05.11.12-29.01.13 and Bean 2 30.09.11 and Bean 4 lost today xxxx

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Jessica and all the Angels x

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xx Baby Amison xx

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xx Maison xx

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For Max Charles and all the other babies who's amazing parents I have met in the last year and a half. We remember you little ones. xxxx

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All the angel babies in my thoughts tonight xxx

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xx Lucas xx

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For my sweet sweet angel, Grace. 23.9.13

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xx Olivia xx

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In memory of our beautiful baby boy Lucas. X

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For Laura and all the other little ones gone too soon x

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For Charlotte Sofia Hannah, 01/02/13, forever 42 minutes old, forever loved xxxx

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My candles for my beautiful daughter Rosalee Grace and all the precious babies and children taken too soon  xx

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xx Lola xx

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In loving memory of Georgie Currie, loved always xxx

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In loving memory of Riley & Reece Jnr.

Thank you to their mummy Aidean for remembering lots of little ones along with her boys xx

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For Nathaniel James list 17.12.11 and  beanie 24.11.10.

Always and forever in my heart until we meet again x

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For Lily xxx

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xx Maisie Rose xx

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My beautiful Frankie, forever my angel xx

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Bradley & Tyler's Wave of Light candles for them and their angel friends.
Think of them every day x

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Clara: Wave of Light 2013

For the third year in a row, I will be taking part in the Wave of Light to raise awareness for Pregnancy and Infant Loss.

For those who would like to take part, October 15th is the designated day of remembrance during Pregnancy and Infant Loss awareness month. The Wave of Light is an international event where people around the globe are asked to light candles at 7pm and leave them burning for one hour. The hope is that, as different timezones hit the 7pm mark, a continuous wave of light will move around the world. This also coincides with CarlyMarie's 'Capture Your Grief' photography project where Day 15's subject matter is this event.

This year I will be remembering my little girls and 3 little stars we never got to meet. We will also be asking family and friends to light a candle for them and send us the photo or post it on Facebook and tag us in it. I will add some of the photos here tonight.

In the meantime, you can read my post from last year by clicking on 'Wave of Light 2012' and here are some of our photos from that event also:

If you would like me to include your photos in memory of your own little ones, please email me at lossthroughthelookingglass@gmail.com and I will include them here tonight also.

Much love to all the bereaved families. I hope that tomorrow brings a little bit of light and peace into your homes.

Clara xxx

EDIT: I HAVE CREATED A SEPARATE POST FOR ALL THE MEMORIAL PHOTOS SUBMITTED TO THE BLOG. YOU CAN FIND THIS POST BY CLICKING HERE:

WAVE OF LIGHT 2013 MEMORIAL PHOTOS

Andrew: Milly's Eulogy

We are so very honoured to share this touching and emotional eulogy with you, written by Milly's Daddy and read out at her funeral. Thank you to Milly's Mummy and Daddy for allowing us to share such a personal, brave and beautiful tribute to their little girl.

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I’d first like to thank you all for coming today and honouring the memory of our baby girl. Today is a hard day, we all know that, but we hope to see more smiles than tears today as we try to celebrate a short life filled with love.

With all of that in mind I wanted to say a few words today about my beautiful baby girl Milly Josie Mills. I want to tell you about the things she liked and didn’t like. I don't want to give you the sad story of a most human tragedy because that is not how I want you to remember her. Moreover I want to make you smile and make you understand just how loved this baby girl was going to be.

We had plans to call Milly, Penny Anne. Instead she will always be Milly, simply because that is what we had always called her, Princess Milly Mills. Tyler and Harry sometimes called her Bubby 2, in reference to Harry being called Bubby before he arrived. Harry sometimes called her Princess Fat Pants, which I’m sure sometimes caused a disapproving wiggle. But she was always Milly. And she will always be our Milly.

It often seems that the tragedy of babies that are born sleeping is the perceived lack of a full relationship and that your mourning is based upon the absence of that relationship. Whilst I am sure that can often be the case, I can tell that is certainly not the case with ourselves and Milly.

We knew Milly very well and I’d like to spend some time illustrating to you just how much we knew her...

● Milly was, like many girls, a lover of chocolate. If Kelly indulged in just a small amount of chocolate. We saw loads of wiggles and jiggles. As if urging Mum to "GO GET MORE". A request which Kel was very happy for me to oblige, anytime day or night.

● Milly was not a fan of cold hands however. When I came home from work and had a little hold of Milly in Mummy’s tummy, if my hands were cold she would visibly move to the other side. I could then move my hands to Milly and she would move again. It was a little bit like our first game of tickles.

● Harry seemed to have a theory that Milly could hear better when he spoke through Mum’s belly button. From that we learnt that Milly always had a strong reaction to hearing her brothers voice. Wiggles and Jiggles a plenty. I think she knew that that voice was the sound of fun and laughter and playing all day.

● Milly, like her youngest brother before her, seemed to want to kick out at Tyler’s touch. In fact I remember a six year old Tyler placing an ear to Mum’s tummy only to have the then Bubby and now Harry kick him swiftly in the head. But Tyler still loved to have a hold of Milly and feel her wiggle and jiggle around Mum’s tummy. I think she knew that those hands were those of both her loving elder brother and soon to be “miniDad” and “Chief Protector”.

● Milly loved McFlurry’s. It may have had a lot to do with Kelly loving McFlurry’s. But love them she did and that’s why Kel’s work Friends had called her Milly McFlurry Mills.

● Milly and Mum had an excellent working relationship all day long, well until bedtime at least. Milly would happily be rocked to sleep all day by Mum as she nested and organised and made many lists (Kelly does love to make a few lists). But come bedtime she would be wide awake wiggling and jiggling in glee as she could no doubt hear us laughing as she moved. Was this Princess Milly adoring her limelight? Maybe. And we loved it.

● Milly was definitely going to be Daddy’s Girl. When she was having one of her many wriggles and causing Kel some discomfort Kel would always be amazed at how she would settle immediately when I placed my hands on her (unless they were cold obviously). Daddy’s girl and she always will be.

● When Harry was born he went to Water babies with mum and ever since has loved water. We could already tell Milly was going to be another water baby. When Mum had a bath I could pour a jug of water on to her belly and Milly would spring to life kicking and wiggling and jiggling.

As you can see we already knew Milly so well. She was already a huge part of our family and she always will be. We will miss her, but we will be glad for how much we knew her and how much she lit up our lives.