Coping With Christmas After Child Loss

November 28, 2025
Posted by wpadmin

Parenting / 28 November, 2025 / My Baba

Today’s episode is one that sits incredibly close to Ellie’s heart, as she discusses coping with Christmas after child loss. As many listeners will know, Ellie lost her beautiful boy Billy to DIPG, and this is her second Christmas without him. The festive season can bring a complex mix of emotions for bereaved parents, the memories, the empty space, and the pressure to appear “festive” when the heart is somewhere else entirely.

In this episode, Ellie is joined by Bereavement Support Service Lead Rachel Tegg from Child Bereavement UK for an open, gentle and honest conversation about what it means to face Christmas after losing a child. Whether someone is in their first year, their fifth year or anywhere in between, this discussion offers comfort, understanding and the reminder that no parent walks this path alone.

Content Warning

This episode includes discussion around the death of a child, grief and the emotional challenges of Christmas. Listeners are encouraged to take care of themselves while listening and to step away at any time if needed.

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Rachel Tegg has worked in the bereavement sector for the last twelve years and has been with Child Bereavement UK (CBUK) for just over six and a half years. As Bereavement Support Service Lead for the South of England, she provides direct support to the families who come to Child Bereavement UK following a bereavement, supervises the work of the other practitioners within the team and provides training to schools and professionals to better promote bereavement understanding and awareness.

Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. They support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.

They offer free, confidential, digital bereavement support by telephone, video or instant messenger, to families wherever they are in the UK. They also offer face-to-face support from a number of locations across the UK.