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Hull and Lincolnshire events to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week
Overview
A series of events, remembrance services, and activities are scheduled across Hull and Lincolnshire to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week from 9 to 15 October, providing support for bereaved families and helping to challenge taboos surrounding baby loss.
Key points
- Baby Loss Awareness Week runs from 9 to 15 October.
- Remembrance services are scheduled in Hull, Scunthorpe, and Grimsby.
- A lantern walk organized by United Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity will take place in Lincoln on Sunday 11 October, starting at Lincoln Bishops University and ending at Lincoln Cathedral.
- Several local hospitals and Lincoln Cathedral will be lit up in pink and blue, and hospital chapels across Lincolnshire will display trees of remembrance.
- Babies' names will be added to a memory tree at Hull Women and Children's Hospital.