Are you a doula or midwife wanting to improve your bereavement support to families affected by baby loss at any gestation?
This is for you.
Every Wednesday I run a live online bereavement training session designed to help birth workers show up with more confidence, more compassion, and more understanding when families need it most.
This is not a tick box exercise.
This is real, honest, human training rooted in lived experience and professional advocacy. The kind that stays with you.
๐ Every Wednesday
โฐ 3pm to 5pm
๐ป Online
๐ท ยฃ40 per session
Link in bio to book your spot on Eventbrite.
Baby loss at any gestation deserves to be held with care. So do the people supporting those families, you deserve to be best equipped.
#babyloss #doula #midwife #mailaspresent #maternalhealth
This is for anyone who wants to meet physically and do something in memory of their baby in a shared space. We will soon also be doing online sessions so watch this space.
Please share with anyone who may be interested.
Every second Saturday of the month 12:30 to 14:30.
#babyloss #grief #explorepage #reels
We will be donating three books to our local hospital. These books will be left there for any parent to read during their stay in the bereavement suite, they will feature three babies from our community Maila, Eli and Nakoa.
Hopefully allowing any parent who may be having a hard time with bonding to realise that itโs a possibility to do it there and then and see how parents continue their childrenโs legacy.
#grief #babyloss #stillbirth #reels #explorepage
Black baby loss awareness week
Our episode with @mailaspresent will be going live in a few weeks, but we recorded last night. Our conversation felt so important and I loved getting to know Helena and Maila more. We spoke about how to stay connected with your baby after loss and how to humanise baby bereavement.
If you have experienced the loss of your baby/ babies, we see you, there is space for you and youโre not alone ๐
#blackbabylossawarenessweek #babyloss
Maila & I firmly stand by the work to end the increased numbers of Black babies which as it stands is 3 times more likely. Racism plays a big role in this, because apparently it is easier to ignore and dismiss a Black mother.
#blackbabyloss #blackbabylossawareness #stillbirth #loss #motherhood
Weโre honoured to welcome Mailaโs Present as an exhibitor at the Black & Brown Fertility Show 2026 ๐คโจ
Mailaโs Present creates beautiful personalised memory books for families navigating baby loss and grief โ offering a meaningful way to honour, remember, and celebrate babies gone too soon.
Their heartfelt keepsakes are created with compassion, understanding, and lived experience, helping families preserve precious memories and feel supported through every stage of their journey. ๐ป
At the Black & Brown Fertility Show, we believe these conversations matter. Alongside fertility, wellbeing, and reproductive health, we are also creating space for healing, remembrance, support, and community.
๐ Meet Mailaโs Present at the Black & Brown Fertility Show
๐ 15th May 2026
๐ Vodafone Three Offices, The Speechmark, London
โฐ 9:00am โ 5:00pm
Come and connect with trusted brands, charities, experts, and organisations supporting every part of the fertility and parenthood journey.
#babyloss #miscarriage #grief #fedtility
Our next creative writing workshop for bereaved parents is happening this Friday the 9th May. We will also have a guest facilitator at the start of the session supporting us with some breathing and ground exercises preparing us to open up and let our creativity flow.
@thehfoundation1
This space is where we allow ourselves continued bonds with our children, no judgement, no boundaries just love for our babies.
@ebonybondsupport@sandscharity
#babyloss #bereavement #grief #creativewriting
Iโll never forget that feeling, suddenly everything is loud and quiet all at once. You can hear everything but also nothing. The ringing in your eyes, the feeling of being submerged under water.
#babyloss #grief #lossmom #bereavement
It's Bereaved Mother's Day today. This is one of my favourite memories after giving birth to Maila, getting together with my loved ones to create something in memory of her. Some Art for my most beautiful creation my daughter.
#babyloss #bereavedmothersday #mothersday #lossmom #baby
Our next creative writing workshop is on the 2nd Saturday of this month please share far and wide with friends and family who may need this space. Our creative writing sessions are truly a lovely time to be with other parents.
@ebonybondsupport@sandscharity
#babyloss #grief #bereavement #pregnancy #baby
Today I attended an MNVP Maternal Mental Health Listening Event at Walthamstow Library. It created a valuable space to listen, share experiences, and contribute to shaping better maternity and neonatal care across Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, and Newham.
It was encouraging to see open, candid, and constructive discussions between service users, healthcare professionals, and hospital leadership. Thank you to those who bravely shared their own lived experiences.
A key focus of the discussion and something that really resonated with me as a midwife was how current antenatal appointment structures and the significant reduction in time and resources is preventing midwives from being able to explore maternal mental health in detail both during pregnancy and in the postnatal period.
The constraints of limited appointment times, midwives having the knowledge and skills to recognise deteriorating mental health and having the confidence to use their own professional curiosity, were highlighted as critical factors that can significantly impact the support women receive.
Itโs really hard to sit and listen to women who feel their care fell below the standard they needed and the effect this had on their experience, their mental health and how they have bonded with their baby. I sat there, feeling deflated, almost embarrassed hearing these women speak so openly. I had to remind myself that midwives hate working this way too- we know itโs not enough, we want to be able to do more and we want women to feel seen and heard and have the best experience possible. The reality, we are constrained by the system, a system that isnโt fit for purpose and that is a hard pill to swallow!
I just hope that opportunities like this encourage decision makers to really listen to the impact this restrictive care is having on womenโs mental health and are able to make the necessary changes.
Events like today are essential in ensuring that services evolve in a way that is responsive, compassionate, and truly centres the needs of women and their families.
Thank you @mailaspresent for inviting me to attend and lovely to see @daphneandfriendscic as always ๐
