FAMILIES devastated by the loss of their children set out to retrace their journeys from the hospital to Kingsdown Crematorium on Saturday in the second sponsored memory walk with Swindon Sands.
Dozens of bereaved mums, dads and siblings turned out for the six-mile trek from the Great Western Hospital to remember their loved ones and raise money for the stillborn and neonatal death society.
Among them was Natasha Wilson and her family, whose third child Rebecca Florence was stillborn on March 5.
"We're doing the walk to raise awareness and something for Rebecca," she said. "It's the journey our babies took from the hospital to the cemetery.
"Rebecca was our third child, our second daughter, and she was stillborn at 36 weeks.
"It changes your whole life, and affects your whole family. It changes the whole family dynamic. You stop living your old life and start living a new one.
"It breaks everyone's hearts. I'm heartbroken, my husband's heartbroken and so are my children, because they lost their little sister.
"It always seems that you get to your 20-week scan and you think everything is going to be fine. You don't think anything is going to go wrong, but it can.
"I just want to tell people to be aware, to be aware of their body and if they think something is wrong to talk to their doctor and seek support."
On arrival at the crematorium the group held a picnic together and released balloons in memory of their loved ones.
To find out more about Swindon Sands, how you can seek support or offer support to them, visit www.swindonsands.org.
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