Yes, I know I look young in this picture! (It was thirteen years ago.)

It was taken in Cornwall three days after our first baby, Matilda, was stillborn, when I was three days over due. It's of someone who was a mother, yet did not feel like a mother. 

Meeting others who have also experienced a baby dying is like a life line. It helps stop you from going under and feeling completely alone, in a world where everyone else seems to be enjoying their baby. 

I gained a lot of support from, and made firm friends with, people from Bristol Sands. (Big thank you to our friends at Bristol Sands, for letting us run with you!)

So when the lure of the sea brought us to North Devon, I wanted to be able to help offer something similar to bereaved parents here. So I became involved with the Baby Loss Support Group, and later turned it into North Devon Sands, where, again I have made good friends with people who understand. 

We are a small group, and our focus is supporting parents, at our monthly support meetings and face to face, so I decided I needed to do a bit of fundraising!

I'm so very grateful to everyone who supports me in this. (I have never run 10KM!) It really will go towards supporting bereaved parents and training healthcare professionals in bereavement care, and all the other wonderful things which Sands does.