05/12/2025
The Abigial cooling cot has arrived. Thank you to the family that had raised the money to then donate the cot to us, it will benefit soo many families in the future and we will be forever grateful.
Abigail's Footsteps are a baby loss charity, who's aim is to improve the care given around stillbirth and neonatal bereavement. With one in every 200 babies being stillborn (around 14 stillborn and neonatal deaths per day in the UK), Britains figures are among the worst in the developed world.
They provide care and support to families who have suffered a bereavement, as well as education for healthcare professionals directly involved with caring for bereaved parents. Their fundraising pays for specialist midwifery bereavement training courses and the provision of Abi cooling cots to maternity units, to allow parents to spend additional time with their baby. They also work with hospitals to advise on the sensitive layout and creation of bereavements suites that provides parents privacy and locates them away from maternity wards. This year they have also seen the launch of their specialist baby loss counselling programme which funds sessions to help bereaved families once they’ve returned home.
