'Please find some words for me': the conversations that helped after our son's stillbirth

Letters, chats, cards, even texts – each made a difference

Our baby’s nursery contains everything that you would expect to see, plus a small box that contains his ashes. Next to it are the first clothes he wore, some other items from hospital and a mound of cards that we received when he died.

We had many cards. We had cards with no words, just a name. We had cards with many words and a name. We had one card where a friend wrote: “I don’t know what to write, but I know that if you were writing this for me, you would write something very wise.”

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