Mental Health Awareness Week: Counselling Centre To Promote Baby Loss Awareness In Worthing

Monday, 9 October 2023 06:00

Worthing based Acorn Pregnancy Counselling Centre will have a stand at Worthing Mental Health Awareness Week as part of Baby Loss Awareness Week (October 9-15).

They will be at the Guildbourne Centre on October 10 and 11, providing an opportunity for everyone in the baby loss community and beyond to come together to remember and commemorate our much-loved and missed babies.

Baby Loss Awareness Week, now in its 21st year, raises awareness of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss; the importance that bereavement support plays in the ongoing bereavement journey; and of the vital work that is needed to improve pregnancy outcomes and to save babies’ lives.

One of Acorn’s clients who experienced baby loss said:

“Having counselling at Acorn helped me work through a lot of messy issues and feelings after losing a number of babies to miscarriage and termination for medical reasons.

"I feel so much lighter after the counselling and feel I am finally able to start letting go of the past. I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to Acorn for our sessions, it is the best thing I have done for my state of mind, thank you!”

Acorn Trustee Patrick Woodward, commented:

“We are pleased to be promoting Baby Loss Awareness week as part of our stand at Worthing Mental Health Awareness Week. Baby loss is always a tragedy and we applaud the work of Baby Loss Awareness Week in highlighting the issue.

"At Acorn we see many women, and also men, who have faced such a loss whether from miscarriage, stillbirth or post abortion, and we offer a place where they can explore their feelings, confidentially and free of charge, with a member of our counselling team.”

Baby Loss Awareness Week is recognised across the world and culminates with the “Wave of Light” on October 15.

This is a special time when people across the world light a candle at 7pm local time and leave it burning to remember all babies that have died too soon.