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Every year, all across the UK, thousands of families come together on 15 October, the final day of Baby Loss Awareness Week to light a candle for the ‘Wave of Light’. This event is organised by the Baby Loss Charity Sands (Still and Neonatal Death), to honour and pay respects to all babies who died too soon. The ‘Wave of Light’ is a beautiful commemoration of every family’s story of experiencing baby loss, of every broken heart and every lost son, daughter, brother and sister.  The chance to come together provides an opportunity to foster a sense of closeness and intimacy, and to combat the isolation that so often accompanies such a traumatic loss. In this way, those grieving the loss of their baby know that they are not alone, that they have each other- that there is a sense of camaraderie and solidarity.