09/10/2026
Today, Friday 9th October marks the first day of Baby Loss Awareness Week with the Wave of Light taking place on Thursday 15th October.
For anyone who doesn’t know, I lost my first born, Ruben, at just 1 day old. He was born on 27th November 2022 and passed away peacefully in my arms on 28th November 2022.
Ruben is my reason why. Ruben has made me the person I am today and he has changed my life forever. Losing my son was and still is the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced and as his mum, I will endeavour to continue to do what I can to honour his memory as well as those babies who have left this world far too soon.
To say I was in the darkest of places back then would be an understatement.
Oscar’s Wish Foundation is an incredible local charity dedicated to supporting bereaved families across Sussex following the loss of a baby.
They provide compassionate bereavement support, online support communities, memory boxes and memory bears, alongside resources for siblings and children. They have also helped create calm, private spaces within local hospitals where families can spend precious time with their babies.
They offer support with accessing specialist bereavement counselling and organise memorial events to bring families together, helping parents feel less alone in their grief.
Without their support and the services available to me, I genuinely do not know how I would have managed during the darkest days of my life.
Sadly, this is still ongoing. I am not the first and won’t be the last parent to go through this and the NHS do not provide the support required for bereaved parents. We rely solely on charities such as Oscars Wish, and to continue to provide support they need the funds in order to be able to do so.
So, in honour of my beautiful boy Ruben and Baby Loss Awareness Week, I will be holding a charity raffle from 9th - 31st October 💜
The prize is a 60 minute treatment with me at The Beauty Space by The Sea.
Every ticket purchased will help raise funds for Oscar’s Wish Foundation and the incredible work they do to support bereaved families.
How to enter:
💜 Tickets are £2 each, with no limit on how many you can purchase
💜 Comment on this post with the number of tickets you would like
💜 Send me a private message via Rainbow Holistics Hove and I’ll provide the account details for the charity collection
💜 Once payment has been received, I’ll confirm your ticket number
Please take a moment to like and follow Oscar’s Wish Foundation and Rainbow Holistics Hove to support both pages.
Even if you don’t wish to enter the raffle, sharing this post or leaving a little comment can help it reach more people and hopefully raise even more money for this incredible charity. Every little bit of support means so much.
The raffle closes on 31st October, with the prize draw taking place on 1st November.
This fundraiser is so much more than a raffle to me. It’s an opportunity to give something back to a charity that helped carry me through the unimaginable, while helping other bereaved families receive the support they need and keeping my beautiful Ruben’s memory alive.
Forever loved, forever missed, forever my reason why 🩵🌈
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