Welcome to Christian's Beach
If you are here because you have experienced the loss of your pregnancy, baby/ies or child/ren we extend to you our deepest sympathy.
If you are here because you want to help a friend who is suffering through their own loss, please click here to find out ways that you can be of great help to them.
Firstly, we would like to let you know a bit about our story and what it is we do here at Christian's Beach.
On Australia Day (January 26th) 2007 our son Christian was stillborn. Our world fell apart. We could not believe that our perfect baby boy was not going to be able to come home from the hospital with us.
Over the following 18 months we struggled to make sense of why this could have possibly happened to us. We still don't understand why.
On August 19th 2008 I dreamed of our son for the first time. He was playing on the beach with his friends that had also passed away. I walked up the beach to where he was but before I got to him, he ran away. I got to the point that they had been playing and it was then that I saw he had written his name in the sand.
This dream inspired me to visit the beach and write his name in the sand myself. I took my camera down to the shore at sunset and wrote his name. Since that day in the winter of 2008 I have written over 14,500 children's names in the sand.
It is a simple act that recognizes a life. It gives something beautiful to a family that may only have a few memories of their child - or even none at all.
I visit the beach around 6 nights a week. I write all of the names, take all of the photos and create all of the memorials as a free service to anyone who has been touched by the loss of a child. We rely purely on donations to keep our son's legacy alive so if we write your child's name in the sand and you like the photograph you can purchase your high resolution jpeg for a donation of $20 AUS. We offer a discount if you have multiple children who has passed away. Each name in the sand after the first photo is $5. The jpeg photos will be emailed to you and you will able to print and enlarge the image as many times as you please.
Having Christian's sunset photograph displayed in our home has brought us much peace. We have it framed next to the photographs of our beautiful girls. It reminds anybody that comes into our home that we did have a son and that he is just as loved as our girls are.
We hope that if you do decide to donate for your child/rens photograph that you feel proud to display their sunset in your own home.
Because pregnancy and infant loss is such a common occurrence we receive hundreds of requests with each intake. Because there is only Sam and myself to run the memorial site we can only take name requests every so often through the website. I update regularly on my facebook page when I am next opening requests.
In the meantime, we have many pages you may like to visit to help you on this road you are travelling. Our main website is CarlyMarie Project Heal. There you can find all of our projects including our the International Bereaved Mothers and Fathers Days that we have created.
Above all we wish you peace and healing. Although you may feel so alone on this road, you are not.
With much love and many blessings,
Carly, Sam, Scarlett, Christian, River and Ocea.
{Scarlett Grace creating her own work of art in the sand}
If you are here because you have experienced the loss of your pregnancy, baby/ies or child/ren we extend to you our deepest sympathy.
If you are here because you want to help a friend who is suffering through their own loss, please click here to find out ways that you can be of great help to them.
Firstly, we would like to let you know a bit about our story and what it is we do here at Christian's Beach.
On Australia Day (January 26th) 2007 our son Christian was stillborn. Our world fell apart. We could not believe that our perfect baby boy was not going to be able to come home from the hospital with us.
Over the following 18 months we struggled to make sense of why this could have possibly happened to us. We still don't understand why.
On August 19th 2008 I dreamed of our son for the first time. He was playing on the beach with his friends that had also passed away. I walked up the beach to where he was but before I got to him, he ran away. I got to the point that they had been playing and it was then that I saw he had written his name in the sand.
This dream inspired me to visit the beach and write his name in the sand myself. I took my camera down to the shore at sunset and wrote his name. Since that day in the winter of 2008 I have written over 14,500 children's names in the sand.
It is a simple act that recognizes a life. It gives something beautiful to a family that may only have a few memories of their child - or even none at all.
I visit the beach around 6 nights a week. I write all of the names, take all of the photos and create all of the memorials as a free service to anyone who has been touched by the loss of a child. We rely purely on donations to keep our son's legacy alive so if we write your child's name in the sand and you like the photograph you can purchase your high resolution jpeg for a donation of $20 AUS. We offer a discount if you have multiple children who has passed away. Each name in the sand after the first photo is $5. The jpeg photos will be emailed to you and you will able to print and enlarge the image as many times as you please.
Having Christian's sunset photograph displayed in our home has brought us much peace. We have it framed next to the photographs of our beautiful girls. It reminds anybody that comes into our home that we did have a son and that he is just as loved as our girls are.
We hope that if you do decide to donate for your child/rens photograph that you feel proud to display their sunset in your own home.
Because pregnancy and infant loss is such a common occurrence we receive hundreds of requests with each intake. Because there is only Sam and myself to run the memorial site we can only take name requests every so often through the website. I update regularly on my facebook page when I am next opening requests.
In the meantime, we have many pages you may like to visit to help you on this road you are travelling. Our main website is CarlyMarie Project Heal. There you can find all of our projects including our the International Bereaved Mothers and Fathers Days that we have created.
Above all we wish you peace and healing. Although you may feel so alone on this road, you are not.
With much love and many blessings,
Carly, Sam, Scarlett, Christian, River and Ocea.
{Scarlett Grace creating her own work of art in the sand}
