2023's fundraising auction for Inspired by Koby was held during Baby Loss Awareness Week as usual.

My annual fundraising auction was held in October.

We raised $1864 to go towards Inspired by Koby cards & postage for 2023.

Suz x

This year Koby turns 10.  So hard to believe, it's a huge milestone and makes him seem so far from me.  I can't imagine I'll ever stop counting, celebrating his birthday - he's still part of our family, and he always will be.  However you grieve, I think so long as you do it authentically, then it is the right way.  It's important to feel the feelings, and it helps to share, and to do something special to acknowledge a life that never got to be lived.  He is very much loved, and always will be.  

This year I created and donated 100 pendants to the Manaia Room at Waikato Hospital.  It's my hope, as it is every year, that they are treasured by those who receive one, and that they feel closer to their baby because of it.  That they feel that little less alone in their grief.

This year I made and donated 100 pendants to the Manaia Room at Waikato Hospital.  Each year I find it so difficult to imagine all these families embarking on this journey.  Those early memories are softer for me now, but I remember how all encompassing the grief is and how you don't know if you'll ever come out the other side.  I do remember clearly though, how special it was to have something to wear to keep Koby close, to acknowledge how very important he was in my family.  So 9 years on I continue to create these pendants, in his memory, and in the hope they bring a little comfort for families starting on this path.