Photo exhibition at Cemetery of San Froilán

On 24 March 2023, the exhibition "Arrolos ao ar" (Lullabies in the air) was inaugurated at the Cemetery of San Froilán in Lugo, Spain.

About the exhibition

"Arrolos ao ar" (Lullabies in the air), a photo exhibition on perinatal mourning, is the result of the collaborative work of affected people and entities and institutions in the health and funeral field.

It highlights the mourning process after a pregnancy loss or that which occurs during the perinatal period. An area which is very poorly understood and requires measures like this to be made visible and put in evidence as an important part of the process of pain, in which mothers and fathers are submerged at the moment when the illusion of a new life is cut short by the sudden departure of the baby.

Throughout the exhibition, we can see in each of the totems how the affected people strip naked to let us participate in their way of living this painful experience, their emotions, their goodbyes, their memories.

The Garden of Lullabies

The "Xardín dos Arrolos" (Garden of Lullabies) is a perinatal mourning space recently created in the Municipal Cemetery of San Froilán. It represents the union of people and work groups that come together in this beautiful platform where mutual support serves as collective consolation and helps recover hope.

New perinatal mourning space at Cemetery of San Froilán

A new perinatal mourning space called the Garden of Lullabies was inaugurated at the Cemetery of San Froilán in Lugo, Spain.

The Garden of Lullabies

The Municipal Cemetery of San Froilán has a new space dedicated to reflection and remembrance, in this case to perinatal mourning, that sphere of mourning that is so unknown and therefore so little attended.

It is a new acquisition, which is part of the Living Memory Project, that has guided our steps in recent years, to deepen the help and emotional support to families and mourners who come to our cemetery.

Perinatal grief, caused by pregnancy loss or that which occurred during the perinatal period, is marked by the simultaneity of antagonistic moments of the life cycle, life and death, which contributes to a mismatch of the emotional body and the confluence of conflicting feelings. The illusion of a new life suddenly turns into an irreparable loss. The pain and grief are mixed with anger, rage, guilt, and feelings of negativity. Then all that remains is loneliness in the transit of mourning, in which depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other imbalances appear.

This mourning space, called "Xardín dos Arrolos" (Garden of Lullabies), is meant to help grieving families in this transition, and be an environment where loneliness turns into solidarity. A place to share experiences and to remember. A starting point to serenely face a future full of hope, where every corner will have a positive meaning.

Exhibition about perinatal grief

In this context, an informative Exhibition about perinatal grief has been prepared by the Department of Participation and Services for the neighborhood in collaboration with the Official College of Nursing of Lugo, Official College of Nursing of Alicante, Nursing Academy of Galicia, as well as other entities and citizen work groups that have been created in this environment.