Ben urges others to show kindness on Father’s day week
Ahead of Father’s Day this Sunday Trustee Ben says ” After the first year following the death of your baby any support you did have drops off dramatically.
For Dads this is even far more the case than mums. We are expected to be strong and just to get on with it. If we go on to have other children people rarely mention the name of our other children who exist.
When you have experienced the death of a baby we must live with this every single day.
If you know a dad who has experienced the death of a baby at any stage , please do reach out to them this week to simply say thinking of you . If you know the baby’s name, please acknowledge this in your contact.
It doesn’t matter when the baby died , this could have been fifty years ago , please still reach out.
To give even just a little bit of kindness to someone who needs it is a great gift.
Next month Ben will take on two extreme challenges within one week to raise funds for Professor Alexander Heazell and his team at the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre in Manchester. He is now £720 short of his £10,000 fundraising target.
On July 12-13 he is walking 120 miles nonstop from the Angel of the North to Manchester.
Then on July 20th on the Greek island of Rhodes he will be taking on the mountain road of Prophet Elias Monastery in Faliraki a total of 50 times.
Ben will only arrive in Rhodes just hours before.
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