Wave of Light

October is pregnancy and baby loss awareness month. Yesterday (Thursday), October 15, as happens every year, a global wave of light was created through the lighting of candles by parents who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or in infancy.

Both Cavan General and Cavan Court House lit up pink and blue, the colours of baby loss, to remember every little baby lost through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, and their families.

People are lit candled at home at 7pm to support the Wave of Light. The idea was to have candles lighting for 24 hours all over the world depending on the different time zones.

It’s estimated that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage and one in 200 end in still birth and the Wave of Light is about remembering them.