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 SANDS (Vic)
SANDS is a self-help support group comprised of parents who have experienced the death of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or shortly after birth. SANDS is recommended by a majority of maternity hospitals in Victoria and Tasmania.

 SANDS aims to:

• facilitate the normal grief process for the newly bereaved and for parents whose natural grief was denied appropriate expression at the time of their baby's death - direct support
 
• change the community attitude and associated practices that fail to recognise the death of a baby as a real loss, legitimate to mourn
 
• encourage research into the incidence, cause, effects on the family and methods of preventing and alleviating associated problems with the death of a baby.
 
 

  Our Babies Have Died: Stories of Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death is a collection of 37 stories written by bereaved parents for bereaved parents. This book, three years in the making, was written in the hope that these stories will be able to help other going through the grief of a child. These stories are at time heartbreaking, brave and sensitive while showing an insight into the strength of the human condition.

 “Anyone who has lost a baby, or knows someone who has, should read this collection of stories. In a word: emotional”.
 
Cheryl Critchley, Herald Sun (Melbourne)
 
“These true life stories are heart wrenching, yet they allow us insight into the spectrum of emotions and responses experienced as each family deals with its own personal loss. These stories brought tears to my eyes. I highly recommend it.”
 
If you would like to order a copy of our new book Our Babies Have Died please proceed to the on-line Store, or you can ring the SANDS (Vic) office on (03) 9899 0217.
 
If you would like to call in to the SANDS (Vic) office and purchase a copy, our address is:

Suite 208
901 Whitehorse Road
Box Hill         Vic          3128        
(Upstairs in the Family Planning Victoria building)

Office hours are 9.30am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday.