Mother’s Day can be a very sad day…

Mother's Day message

Mother’s Day is on 22nd March in the UK but for some it can be a very sad day indeed. For people who have lost their mothers, it becomes a day of remembrance – and unfortunately, this is going to happen to all of us eventually as part of the cycle of life.

But what about the mums who have lost a child? This should be a day of joy and celebration but becomes a day of anguish and mourning instead. Once you’ve been a mum, you always will be a mum, forever, and that fact can never change.

The Child Bereavement Charity is promoting this fact in the UK due to the approach of Mother’s Day – and a wonderful job they are doing too. Prince William recently became patron of the charity and spoke about how ‘Mother’s Day makes me feel empty’ referring to his late mother, Diana.

Already at SentForever, we have transmitted our first Mother’s Day messages this year – including very special remembrance ones. So if you’ve lost someone who is very special to you on Mother’s Day, an eternal message may be a way for you to say some things that aren’t possible to say by any other means.

Our messages are sent into space using one of British Telecom’s specially modified, high power radio transmitters. This enables us to transmit your Mother’s Day messages so they will travel through space and time for the rest of eternity. Remember Mother’s Day this year by sending a very special SentForever Mother’s Day message.

Remember a lost baby – the saddest dream

By Chris 

This post follows on from Stephanie’s recent post Remembering the Lost Babies a few weeks back. 

Some years ago I had the saddest dream about a baby. Usually I forget my dreams but that morning I remembered it and so I wrote it down. As you start to write a dream down, more and more details are remembered and the dream started to get longer and longer. I wanted to capture this dream in as few words as possible, so this is what I wrote: 

A young baby always knows if it is going to die that night. So when its parents put it to bed it cries and cries to tell them not to leave it alone as it is going to die – but of course the parents don’t understand what the baby is saying. That night the child dies, thinking that its parents didn’t love it enough to save it. 

Now I don’t believe this is true for a moment – it was just a dream I captured. A very moving dream. 

Parents who have lost an older child say that the important thing is to ensure that the child is remembered. That they existed on this earth and they did this, achieved that, and their lives are often captured in many different memories and photos over the years. 

However, when a baby passes on its very different. A baby isn’t really in a position to give the parents anything that is material – it’s usually the parents giving to the child – care, attention, toys, but above all else, love. 

There is a saying that we should live each day as if it were our last. Well perhaps every day we should love our children as if it were their last day – but in a positive sense of course. Let them really know how much they are cherished and loved. 

For the lost babies, this can be done too. In our hearts, our thoughts, our actions and our prayers. And maybe in a special way too by sending a message into eternity. Because, when the baby’s parents and near relatives pass on, how will that child be remembered in the future? 

By sending a message into eternity, that message will exist forever. Your love that is captured in that message will live forever, their memory will live forever. 

We can help ensure your lost baby is remembered forever. And for those babies that are alive today, well, love them just that little bit extra today. Take care.