SPECIAL PLACE: The opening of the SPRING garden at Poole Hospital
GRIEVING families who have lost a baby to stillbirth now have a special garden where they can be surrounded by nature as they process their terrible loss.
The SPRING garden is an area for grieving families – who are staying in the bereavement suites at the hospital’s St Mary’s maternity unit.
The idea came from a parent who used the bereavement suites after he lost his daughter.
Landscape garden company boss Paul Steele wanted to give something back by creating a private space for grieving parents. His firm, the Green Project, built the garden in just six weeks.
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