Loving memories of baby Curtis will be in every step taken by his family on a special walk in Ramsgate on Saturday, May 17.

Mum Lucy Haines, 21, dad Robert Watts, 23, their children Shannon, four, Charlie, 18 months and Paris, 11 months, will don fancy dress and be joined by relatives and friends for the Save A Baby month event.

Little Curtis died suddenly from suffocation, aged 15 weeks, in 2006 and his parents ache for the loss of their son every day.

Their bereavement is the spur driving them forward to raise money for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) behind the month.

Mile In Memory walks are being organised by bereaved families around the country.

Curtis’s family will leave their Chichester Road home in Ramsgate in fancy dress to step out to the seafront, collecting donations on the way.

Miss Haines said: “Curtis never settled in his crib so we put him to sleep on the sofa where he got lodged between the cushions and suffocated.

“It turned our whole family’s lives upside down. We are always going to have something missing, and the pain of what has happened is there constantly.

“By doing something like this, it brings the whole family together and it raises awareness about possible dangers.” Miss Haines said their misery had been made worse by repeated thefts from Curtis’s grave in Margate cemetery. She appealed for those responsible to leave it alone.

FSID is the UK’s leading baby chartiy working to prevent sudden deaths and promote infant health. It funds research and supports bereaved families.

Cot death is the biggest killer of babies aged a month or more, claiming 300 lives annually in the UK.

Miss Haines, who is training as a manicurist at Thanet College, said they were indebted to FSID which has supported their family constantly.

The charity have provided her with telephone counselling and supported her other children through its Care Of the Next Infant scheme.

For more information on FSID, visit www.fsid.org.uk