Wow...... I've exceeded my target!!!!!!!! Maybe I should set a new target!!!!! Thank you so much people!!!!!!!! That now enables sands to purchase at least 5 memory boxes!!!!!

Omg........ I can't believe I've raised over half my target on day 1!!!!!!!!! Thank you guys!!!! Keep going!!!!!!! Now I'm under pressure!!!!

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We sadly lost our daughter Iashia in December 6th 2011. I was nearly 31 weeks pregnant. Our world fell apart. Something that should have been the happiest time in our lives turned out to be a living nightmare. 

I woke up on sunday 4th December after what had been a very busy weekend and I remember thinking I hadn't felt the baby move... I could last vividly remember it moving on the Friday before, but nothing since. My husband Kevin encouraged me to go to the hospital, but being a nurse myself, I was sure it would be ok and that the baby would move soon. I said we should go shopping and hopefully that might wake it up. 

After returning home at lunch time, the baby still hadn't moved, so I contacted the maternity day assessment unit, who told me to come in ASAP. I reluctantly went up with Kevin by my side. The midwife who greeted us settled us into a bed and listened in to find the baby's heart beat. Now it wasn't unusual for the midwives not to pick it up straight away as I had an unusual shaped uterus, once I informed her of this and she agreed that it may be best to have a scan. 

By this stage I still wasnt that worried, although I was fighting the niggle I had in the back of my mind. The midwife had to contact the on-call sonographer who was out doing her christmas shopping, but assured us she wouldn't be long. When she arrived I remember joking with her as she was frantically trying to hide her shopping under the desk. We made ourselves comfortable on the bed, and the sonographer scanned my heavily pregnant tummy. 

I'll never forget the moment when she said to me..."I'm really sorry but there  is no heart beat"... I literally felt the life drain out of my body... 

Two days later we gave birth to a beautiful baby girl 2lb 15oz.. We named her iashia. I remember being given a box. Inside this box provided us with tools to make memories of our little angel. We took photos, had hand and footprint taken along with plaster Paris casts, cut a lock of hair and left her with one of the two teddy bears that were in the box.

After a few weeks, I remember going through the box and found the SANDS leaflet, I then went onto the internet and found swindon sands. I later emailed them with my story and straight away got a response from a lady called cathy (who started swindon sands) ... She understood my pain, anger, hurt, frustrations.....she just got it.

In January 2012 I went to my first meeting. I have made so many life long friends through SANDS who have helped me so much through what has been and will always be a difficult part of my life. 

I will never ever forget my daughter Iashia and love to keep her memory alive, so when my friend Louise called me and asked if she could nominate swindon sands for a charity event at her local slimming club she runs I was more than happy to help and get involved.

A memory box cost £20. So I personally would like to raise £100 which would provide 5 families with the necessary tools to make the only memories they will ever sadly have of the their little. My aim is to lose at least half a stone (if not more in the next 6 weeks).... So please dig deep and give to a charity that means so much to me and my family.

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