Remembering Your Baby

Memory Boxes

When a baby dies, there are few happy memories to help process the grief that parents and other family members experience. In the Sands Bereavement Support Book it discusses various ways in which you can make memories of the time that you have together and honour the memory of your baby.

Please find the link here visibookhttps://www.sands.org.uk/supportbereavement-support/sands-bereavement-support-book  suggests a range of things you can do.

Memory boxes and memory pockets are provided by Aberdeen Sands to Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and Dr Gray’s Hospital so that parents have a place to keep their mementos. Parents may want to collect, for example, photographs, imprints of their baby’s hand and foot, a lock of hair, scan pictures, a name band, clothes or a shawl, certificates and other mementos.

Sands also provide Muslim Care Boxes providing faith-specific items for parents preparing for a Muslim funeral, including a cotton shroud, alcohol free oud, prayer beads presented in a velvet box, and a book, ‘A Gift for the Bereaved Parent’ by Zamir Hussain.

If you did not receive a memory box or pocket and wish one please get in contact with us.

Memorial Tree

There is a copper memorial tree in the chapel at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. Families can request an engraved heart shaped leaf to hang on the tree. There is no charge for this. They will remain on the tree until the family request they wish it to be removed.

If you would like your baby to be remembered on this tree, please complete the Memory Tree application form and return to the address at the bottom of the form.