Media Release
Date: 12 November 2024
RUH supports Winter Baby Remembrance Service
Families who have lost a baby are being invited to a special Winter Baby Remembrance Service, organised by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and the charity Sands.
This service takes place on Saturday 30 November at 1pm at All Saints Church, Weston, Bath.
The Reverend Prebendary Narinder Tegally, RUH Lead Chaplain, said: “This service is an opportunity for families who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death to come together and remember at the beginning of a season that is hard for so many. “The service, for people of all faiths and diverse beliefs, will include readings, music, and an act of remembrance for our special babies and the opportunity to place an ornament - an angel or a star - bearing your baby’s name on the Christmas tree.”
If you would like to attend the service, please email Narinder at
narinder.tegally@nhs.net or ruh-tr.chaplaincy@nhs.net
If you are unable to attend in person, you can email Narinder with your baby’s name so it can be written on an ornament and placed on the Christmas tree for you.
After the service, the Christmas tree will be on display in the RUH’s Spiritual Care Centre until 6 January 2025.
The Trust offers a full bereavement and support service for grieving parents and families, including a purpose-built bereavement suite that provides space and privacy they need at a particularly difficult time.
For more information about Sands go to: https://www.sands.org.uk/