Help fund 50 baby record books for bereaved parents

My name is Lucy, and I am currently collaborating with a hospital marternity department to deliver a service improvement project, where 50 books will be offered to the parents of babies who have died during pregnancy.

In 2021 I had a second trimester missed miscarriage. This was also a partial molar pregnancy. There were lots of medical aspects to my care, ongoing over several months, and whilst some of the medical professionals I encountered were caring and compassionate with the treatment they delivered, I realised that at no point did anyone acknowledge to me that my loved one, a family member, had died.

The For Us record book is intended to be given out to parents at one of their first contacts with the hospital. This is to not only provide parents with a tool to process their grief, but by handing parents this book they are acknowledging the death of their baby directly, and that this experience is not just a medical event.

The book itself has been designed by myself, with input from product design graduate and dear friend Ryan Bragg, to ensure every aspect of the book is as appropriate as possible. I have a preliminary project outline and I am currently consulting with an NHS maternity department to finalise the project - this Gofundme is to be able to purchase the initial 50 books to get the project into hospitals.

The target is based on estimates from printers, and if there is any excess money raised it will be put straight towards more books being printed.

Thank you so much for any amount you can donate to this project, I hope to make a significant difference to the emotional and psychological health of bereaved parents.