Resources

Keepsakes and Memory Making

It's important to acknowledge that your unique experience of pregnancy and baby loss will influence the memory making you had access to in the immediate hours and days following your loss.

Although those precious hours cannot be replicated, there are still many ways you can continue to honour and remember your precious baby into the future with mementos, keepsakes and memory making rituals and traditions. This list serves as only a small starting point to the many wonderful ways you can foster the very special connection you have with your baby.

Also included below are a number of reputable businesses, many of which are owned and operated by fellow bereaved parents, that stock heartfelt and beautifully crafted baby loss products.

Keepsakes and Memory Making

  • Personalised jewellery made from ashes, hair, or breastmilk

  • 3D hand and footprint casts

  • Preserving flowers and petals

  • Filling a keepsake memory box

  • Personalised candles

  • Creating a photo book of your journey

  • Tattoos in honour of your baby

  • Personalised Christmas ornaments

  • Memorial plaques/headstones

  • Weighted teddy bears and urns

  • Gifting a toy to living children from your baby

  • Purchasing a star in their name

  • Customised clothing with their name, dates, initials

Traditions and Rituals

  • Donating to special causes or charities

  • Planting a tree or garden

  • Random acts of kindness

  • Writing letters to your baby

  • Lighting a candle to mark their presence

  • Volunteering your time to a cause

  • Donating an age-appropriate present to a charity each year

  • Donating blood in their name

  • Baking a cake on their birthday

Keepsakes Directory

Olive and Kin

A boutique ceramics studio in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, offering an assortment of handmade pottery and infant urns free of charge for bereaved parents, in memory of Olive Fitzpatrick.

Whittaker & Friends

Beautiful keepsake products to honour your baby and journey, including an incredible baby loss guided journal and memory book, baby loss milestone cards and more.

Arlo Keepsakes

Handmade keepsakes for hearts grieving miscarriage, stillbirth or pregnancy loss... view here

Leisel’s Collection

Leisel’s Collection began after the loss of Jessica's daughter, Leisel. 25% of all sales go directly to Bears of Hope, in honour of all the precious babies who couldn't stay... view here

Made to Bloom

Made to Bloom care packages were designed to show grieving families that they are not alone. Our packages are the perfect option when you don’t know what to say, carefully curated to meet the needs of families dealing with the loss of a child, from a family who has been there before… view here

T-Leaf Collections

Personalised gifts for life's precious moments, including a section specific to loss and grief... view here

Ever Since Esme

A brand created in honour of Chloe's daughter, Esme. Designed to provide comfort and support to fellow grievers during the hardest times. Products include clothing, care packages, and guides to encourage difficult but essential conversations... view here

Green Heart Boulevard

Create a range of products but their standout items are stunning, true to size birth plaques of your baby. They also offer a memorial version... view here

Little Ideas Project

Handwritten and children's art keepsakes, birth keepsakes, including 1:1 scale replicas of your baby. Our keepsakes bring your treasured memories to life. Proudly supporting Bears of Hope... view here

Lumi and Co

Custom hand poured candles made with love in Queensland to honour your baby or loved one. Beautiful, timeless design and quality... view here

Personalised keepsake memory boxes to hold your baby’s most treasured items and mementos, made with love and a large selection of custom options… view here

The Sleeping Meadow

Owner of the popular The Name Nest, Tara Sea creates beautiful artworks featuring intuitive name meanings along with other poetry and meaningful prose to support and inspire. Her work includes products specifically tailored to families facing the heartache of pregnancy, infant, and child loss via her website The Sleeping Meadow.

Written in Stone

Custom poetry prints and bespoke stone pieces... view here

The Lily Flower

Created by bereaved mother Priyanka Saha, The Lily Flower features tools and resources for those experiencing baby loss or a child with a terminal diagnosis... view here

Cast a Memory

Professional bereavement service providing treasured 3D impressions of your babies hands and feet. Can liaise direct with your chosen funeral home.

Bears of Hope

Purchase a bear in memory of your own baby or to be donated to another family in your baby’s honour... view here

Seasons of a Mama

Affirmation cards for baby loss. The Rainbow Bundle Affirmation Cards have been created with the deepest love from one mama, who knows the depth and ache of baby loss, to another... view here

Nala and Me Designs

Handmade signs, plaques, décor, and baby accessories by a fellow loss mama... view here

The Coco Studio

Custom illustrations including family portraits, birth posters, and family birth flower posters ... view here

Myles Gray

Are a luxury candle company that have created a special candle called Eadie Bloom in honour of all babies that didn't get to come home, infused with sunstone and rich floral fragrance... view here

Seasons of a Mama

Affirmation cards for baby loss. The Rainbow Bundle Affirmation Cards have been created with the deepest love from one mama, who knows the depth and ache of baby loss, to another.

Alexandra and Wells

A clothing and fine jewellery store creating special pieces to help people remember their little ones gone too soon... view here

Milk and Stone

Creating keepsakes from breastmilk, ashes, fingerprints and more. Handmade in Australia, with worldwide shipping ...
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Hands in Your Heart

Custom hand portraits in honour of Hallie. "Holding close the ones we love every day, even if they aren't physically here with us."... view here

Living with Little Lychee

Creating inclusive and personalised handpainted wooden Family Globes...
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Mother of Wilde

Prints with a purpose. Hope filled birth prints and memorials. 10% of each print supports bereaved parents. Created by Noah’s mum, in his memory... view here

Inspired by Winnie

Specialising in custom made weighted Angel dolls. In honour of our little angel boy Hudson, born at 29 weeks.