Lily and Cress

Name: Lily and Cress
Address: Canberra, ACT, 2601, AU
Telephone: +61488860062

Home
Australia
Canberra, ACT
Lily and Cress

Susan and Sarah! Passionate about creating gifts for mothers with meaningful support for mental and

08/12/2023

Rummaging around in the drawers for a last minute gift? Let us help! We're still here packing orders and can do custom gifts! Sorted! 🎁

23/09/2023

Did you know that we do custom Lily and Cress boxes? We do! 🧡

Whatever your gifting needs are, it's highly likely we can help you out. We've done a range of custom boxes for birthdays, for support during times of grief and for those 'I'm thinking of you' moments. We've arranged gift bags for events, and we can always accommodate any swaps or add-ons you'd like to our current range, from gluten-free to extra tea.

Just get in touch with Sarah or Susan: [email protected]

xx

21/09/2023

Still here packing your orders!
Is there anything you need? Get in touch, we'd love to help!
Love, Sarah and Susan. x

01/05/2023

Happy 2nd Birthday to us! We officially launched Lily and Cress over two years ago and we'd like to celebrate by giving YOU the gifts!

Get 10% off one of our delicious little Snacky Boxes with code HAPPYBIRTHDAY

And a free gift with every single order!

For ALL of May! Mother's Day present anyone?! 😍

Love, Susan and Sarah. x

12/12/2022

Holiday season with so much celebration, joy and hope can be a challenging time for those who have experienced loss, not just baby loss but loss of any loved one. This emotional landscape is even rougher after the year we have all had. It is a particularly challenging for newly-bereaved families - the first Christmas after a loss looks very different from the one you had envisaged and the joy of the season with strong focus on families may not resonate much at all. The coming of a new year can also be difficult as it is moving further away from their loved little one.

If you know someone who has experienced pregnancy or baby loss, check in with them over this holiday season to see how they are and follow their cues. And if you aren't sure what to do, here's three simple acts of love and recognition.

✨ Address Christmas cards to the whole family, including those gone too soon. Seeing their name and having your child remembered as part of the family is so powerful.

✨ Give space with connection (cups of tea quietly delivered, a hug with no words, a silent walk, rescuing from uncomfortable moments with others).

✨ Find a way to remember their loved little one through a special ornament, donation or simply mentioning their name.

For those bereaved parents, be gentle with yourself and recognise that it's a different chapter of grief. Whatever you feel or need right now is ok. And remember that you are not alone and that it's ok not to be ok – Red Nose Grief and Loss Support Line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week every day of the year. Call them anytime on 1300 308 307.

Sending all our love
Sarah and Susan

03/12/2022

4 thoughts from our time in hospital and SCN:
1) SCN nurses, midwives and student midwives are amazing.
2) Pack more snacks. energy balls were the perfect snack and so easy to just throw in the hospital bag!
3) Newborn noises are bizarre 😳
4) Find a way to support mums and families in Special Care Nurseries. Our visit there was very short and smooth compared to others, it's tough and exhausting.

What would you like to see in a new Lily and Cress Special Care Nursery / NICU Gift Box?? Tell us below! 👇

Sarah. x

07/11/2022

Perinatal Mental Health Week is a time to raise awareness and break the stigma and it kicked off yesterday!

A national week to raise awareness, provide information, referral pathway support and de-stigmatise perinatal mental health issues. Perinatal Mental Health Week is a powerful, national collaboration of 45 organisations which aims to unite to create understanding, reduce stigma and provide education and support.

Through Perinatal Mental Health Week, we will be sharing many supports and resources that are available for expectant and new parents in their most vulnerable time, specific to their need.

Checked out the tagged accounts to start exploring this important week! This beautiful artwork is by Indigenious artist Rheanna Lotter and we love it!

31/10/2022

Did you know one of our favourite Lily and Cress things to do? SEND OUR CONNECTION CARDS!!! Over ten heading out tonight!

💌A month after the delivery of your gift box, we send our signature Connection Card! It has a link to our curated list of activities, services and support organisations in Canberra and across Australia perfect for mothers. Throw in our top picks for podcasts, books and shows as well.

📑Oh and remember those brochures about places to get support? Nope? Yeah we lost them in the chaos of bringing home a baby as well. Don't worry, we include them!

🦋We have also created a special Connection Card and curated list for those mothers who experience the loss of a baby. No mother left behind.

All this delivered when she may need it most.

We are truly aiming to be more than a gift box.

Love Sarah and Susan
xx

16/10/2022

Our very first design. Created from painful and traumatic experiences of losing our babies. Our Loss Box. This is the sketch we sent to each other. To provide something this isn't widely available along with our our offerings.

This design flowed so easily as did the tears in remenbering those days. The physical pain, the aching absence of your baby and the silence when life around moves on. The extra moments of pain when people didn't acknowledge you had a baby or spoke their name, said that "there will be more" or "it happens to so many'. Watching those you love be so uncertain about to what to do and not knowing how to help them or how to help yourself.

Pregnancy and baby loss is common and it shouldn't be surrounded by so much stigma. The silence around it needs to lift so that those that lose babies can feel free to grieve and remember their babies without shame or in the shadows. But also for those of us who haven't experienced such a death so you might know how to support those around who do.

Together we can shift the silence, bring light to the shadows and remember these much loved babies and the mothers that birth them. To surround them with love, recognition and support.

They are our angel babies and we are their earth mothers. Bonds that are unbreakable and never forgotten.

Love Sarah and Susan

15/10/2022

Today is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.

As we light our candles tonight in memory of our little ones, we are with families around the world who have suffered the loss of a pregnancy, baby or infant.

110,000 Australians who face a miscarriage each year.
2,200 parents who endure the pain of stillbirth each year.
600 parents who lose their baby in the first 28 days after birth.
Many who face the grief of termination for medical reasons.
Grandparents that don't get to hold grandchildren, the aunts and uncles with one less active niece or nephew and friends who won't see little ones grow.

Flames wil flicker in our homes, around Australia and the world for these little lives. While their lives were short, the memory and love for them isn't. Remember to wrap those lighting candles in love and support tonight and always.

Love Sarah and Susan
xo

11/10/2022

Our Loss Box is special to us always but in October, Pregnancy and Baby Loss Awareness Month, it is extra special. We hope this box brings much love and support to bereaved mothers.

Part of what why we created this box is to help reduce the stigma around pregnancy and baby loss and to raise much needed awareness about the impacts of these traumatic loss.

Our Loss Boxes are not for profit with 100% of proceeds going to Red Nose Australia. We pour much love, care and attention into these special boxes.

To all the mummas who have received one, may this month bring some comfort, connection to others and understanding about your loss from those around you.
Love Sarah and Susan

03/10/2022

When you're so pregnant you become a human play table.

Address

Canberra, ACT
2601

Telephone

+61488860062

Website

http://www.lilyandcress.com.au/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Lily and Cress posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Want your business to be the top-listed Shop in Canberra?