RESOURCES
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BOOKS
On Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart - Deborah L. Davis
Stolen Angels - Sharee G. Moore
When Hello Means Goodbye – Paul Kirk and Pat Schwiebert
A Silent Sorrow - Ingrid Kohn
Empty Arms - Sherokee Ilse
Journaling Away Mommy's Grief - Robin Lentz Worgan
Mother Care - Sherokee Ilse, Inez Anderson and Mary Funk
When A Baby Dies - Rana Limbo and Sara Rich Wheeler
Unspeakable Losses - Kim Kluger-Bell
Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth - Zoe Taylor
Parenthood Lost - Michael R. Berman
Help, Comfort, and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or The First Year - Hannah Lothrop
Surviving Pregnancy Loss - Rochelle Friedman
Ended Beginnings - Claudia Panuthos, Catherine Romeo and Peggy O'Mara McMahon
Couple Communication After a Baby Dies - Sherokee Ilse
Remembering Our Angels - Hannah Stone
Carrying On: A Workbook for Women Who Have Lost a Pregnancy - Darlene Viggiano
Footprints on My Heart - Molly Remer
I Never Held You - Ellen M. DuBois
Miscarriage: Women Sharing from the Heart - Marie Allen, PhD and Shelly Marks, MS
Knocked Up, Knocked Down - Monica Murphy LeMoine
About What Was Lost - Jessica Berger Gross
Coping With Miscarriage - Mimi Luebbermann
Miscarriage: A Shattered Dream - Sherokee Ilse and Linda Hammer Burns
Our Stories of Miscarriage - Healing with Words - Rachel Faldet and Karen Fitton (ed.)
Miscarriage: A Book for Parents - The Centering Corporation
Too Soon a Memory - Pat Schwiebert
Unsupported Losses: Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy and Blighted Ovum - Sherokee Ilse
Ectopic Pregnancy - Bereavement Services
Small Sparks of Life - Lysanne Sizoo
Hidden Loss - Valerie Hey, Catherine Itzen, Lesley Saunders and Mary Anne Speakman (ed.)
All That Is Seen and Unseen - Elizabeth Petrucelli
Motherhood After Miscarriage - Kathleen Diamond
My Molar Pregnancy - Jennifer Wood
I Didn't Miscarry Her...She Died. - Michelle Myers-Walters
Losing a Child
The Bereaved Parent – Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Resilience – Elizabeth Edwards
Hannah’s Gift – Maria Housden
Notes Left Behind - Brooke Desserich and Keith Desserich
Goodbye My Child - Margaret Pike and Sara Rich Wheeler
A Mother's Tears - Claire Ann Stevenson
After The Darkest Hour The Sun Will Shine Again - Elizabeth Mehren
Am I Going Crazy? - Diana M. Cimador Roscigno
Beyond Tears - Ellen Mitchell
Butterflies, Angels and Roses - Frances Wohlenhaus-Munday
Catching The Light - Genesse Bourdeau Gentry
Children Die, Too - Joy and Marv Johnson
Children of the Dome - Rosemary Smith
Comfort - Ann Hood
Creating a New Normal - Sandy Fox
Dear Parents - The Centering Corporation
The Death of a Child - Elaine Stillwell
Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart - Alan Wolfelt
I Have No Intention of Saying Goodbye - Sandy Fox
I Walked a Mile With Sorrow - Mary S. Cleckley
Love Never Dies - Sandy Goodman
Remembering: The Death of a Child - Robert R. Thompson
Standing Beside You - Linda K. Maurer
Stars in the Deepest Night - Genesse Bourdeau Gentry
When the Bough Breaks - Judith R. Bernstein
Finding Hope When a Child Dies - Sukie Miller
Your Baby Is Safe - Melissa Yuan-Innes
The Still Point of the Turning World - Emily Rapp
Holding On To Hope - Nancy Guthrie
Books for Fathers
Strong and Tender: A Guide for Fathers Whose Babies Have Died – Pat Schwiebert
A Guide For Fathers: When A Baby Dies - Tim Nelson
When A Man Faces Grief - James E. Miller
Men Coping With Grief – Dale A. Lund
Griefquest – Robert J Miller
Miscarriage: A Man’s Grief – Rick Wheat
A Bereaved Father – Steve Younis
Fathers Grieve, Too - Dr. Ray Goldstein
Andy's Mountain - Dwight L. Patton
Healing a Father's Grief - William H. Schatz
Heartworks - Jerre Petersen
Into the Valley and Out Again - Richard Edler
Letters To My Son - Mitch Carmody
Life After The Death of My Son - Dennis L. Apple
Will Our Tears Forever Flow - Ted Wampler
Swallowed by a Snake - Thomas R. Golden
The Rocking Horse Is Lonely - James D. Nelson
Books for Children
Someone Came Before You - Pat Schwiebert and Taylor Bills
Something Happened - Cathy Blanford
No New Baby - Marilyn Gryte
Sibling Grief - Sherokee Ilse, Linda Hammer Burns and Susan Erling Martinez
Talking With Children About Perinatal Loss - Bereavement Services
Always My Twin - Valerie R. Samuels (For a surviving twin)
The Empty Place - Roberta Temes
Tear Soup - Pat Schwiebert
Water Bugs and Dragonflies - Doris Stickney
Children Also Grieve - Linda Goldman
When Dinosaurs Die - Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Stacy Had a Little Sister - Wendie Old
Lost and Found - Ellen Yeomans
Ethan's Butterflies - Christine Jonas-Simpson
The Broken Egg - Joe Sutherland
A Letter From Heaven - Steve Butler
We Do Remember You - Steve Butler
Helping Children Grieve - Theresa M. Huntley
Memory Books
I Will Hold You In My Heart Forever – Michelle Murray
In The Company of Angels - Casey Shay Press
Little Footprints - Dorothy Ferguson
Love and Remembrance - Margot Kenefick Burkle (A Journal for Bereaved Parents)
Resources for family and friends
Don't Say That! What Not To Say After A Miscarriage of Pregnancy Loss - A short article that lists some of the common phrases that parents find hurtful after a loss.
How Family and Friends Can Help - An article from CarlyMarie Project Heal.
What You Can Do When Someone's Baby Dies - An article from PILARI (Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness and Research Institute). There are many more articles for family and friends on this site.
What Do I Say? - Advice from the Facebook page, Healing Hearts on what you can say or do to help someone who has lost their baby.
Books for family and friends
Being With Parents After Their Child or Baby Dies - Joy Johnson
How to Say it When You Don't Know What to Say - Robbie Miller Kaplan
When Your Friend's Baby Dies - Kristine Brite McCormick (ebook)
The Art of Condolence - Leonard M. Zunin
When Your Friend's Child Dies - Julane Grant
MOVIES