The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
Perinatal hospice: A gift
of time - If you are here because of a prenatal diagnosis that
indicates
your baby likely will die before or after birth, we are so sorry.
When a baby is
destined
to die - Perinatal hospices support families with a terminal
prenatal
diagnosis
Now I lay me down to sleep - Volunteer Infant Bereavement Photography - an organization of professional photographers, volunteering their time and services to parents experiencing an early infant loss. There are no fees to the parents for the services NILMDTS provides.
Bay
Photographer
Documents Terminally Ill Infants - You can read about
one photographer's journey with a family expecting a baby with trisomy
13 - Jessica Westfall of Westfall
Photography
Online
memorials for stillbirth, pregnancy loss, miscarriage and loss of
an
infant - from labelledame.com
Our
Hearts
Will Go On - a beautiful memorial site
The also have an excellent set of Information
and Resources for Professional Caregivers.
HAND of the Peninsula - Helping After Neonatal Death, is a non-profit, volunteer group founded in the early 1980's to provide support and information to bereaved parents, their families and friends following a miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death. They are located in Northern California, (650) 367-6993. In an emergency, call the 24 Hour Crisis Line: (650) 579-0350, (888) 220-7575 (toll free)
HAND support group meetings
for Santa Clara take place the first and third Thursdays of each month
starting at 7:30pm in Los Gatos. 408-358-5640. 24 Hour Telephone
Support:
1-888-908-HAND (1-888-908-4263) is staffed by professionally trained
support
volunteers through Contact Cares (contactcares.org)
Please
ask the counselor to leave a message for "HAND".
HAND - Helping After Neonatal
Death
- Helping After Neonatal Death, is a California non-profit 501(c)3
corporation,
founded in 1981 to help parents, their families and their healthcare.
No U-Turn at Mercy Street: A Memoir and Resource Guide for Grieving Parents by Chandrama Anderson, MA, MFT
The
Language
of Grieving guide covers both words that offer comfort, and
words, while well intentioned, that may be resented by or stifle the
grieving
person or make the journey through grief more difficult. Please copy
and
distribute as you wish.
When Hello
Means
Good-Bye blog
Mending Invisible Wings - Loss of a Baby: a journal by Shiloh Sophia McCloud
Art can access and express feeling in a uniquely healing way.
Miscarriage
and
Baby Loss FAQ - from labelledame.com
INFANT
LOSS/MISCARRIAGE
SITES from WWW Links
SHARE - Pregnancy
and Infant Loss Support Inc. - (800)-821-6819 - All information
packets,
correspondence, and support is free of charge for bereaved parents.
The Grief Watch site was
created
to provide you with bereavement resources, memorial products and links
that can help you through your personal loss. It also serves as an
excellent
educational tool for all who travel down the road of grief.
glow in the woods
- for parents of lost babies, including how
to help a friend through babyloss and how
to stop lactation when there is no baby and some discussion boards
Earth Mama Angel Baby -
What
can you say to a woman who has suffered a miscarriage? How do you
comfort
a woman who has endured a full-term pregnancy loss? The subject can
seem
utterly unapproachable. Baby Loss Comfort was created to help provide
real
physical support as well as emotional comfort and resource information
for women who have experienced baby loss from miscarriage to
stillbirth.
GRIEF LOSS RECOVERY
- Hope and Health Through Creative Grieving
October 15th - The Official
Site
of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Healing Hearts Baby Loss
Comfort
Holding on to Faith, Hope
after
Miscarriage and Loss - the personal story of recurring loss by
miscarriage
and ectopic pregnancy and the story of hope and faith which led to the
birth of the couple's two children. This site has some nice Resources.
Loss from a Doula's Perspective - an
excellent
article with an extensive resource
list.
Forever Our Angels
by Hannah Stone - includes about 17 non-fiction essays written as
1st-person
accounts. Each of the essays is written by a real person who has
experienced
a miscarriage. The book begins with an an introduction by a doctor of
psychiatry,
as well as a preface by the author Hannah Stone.
SilentGrief.com - Support for
all who have suffered miscarriage and later child loss
Pregnancy
& Infant Loss Support from heavenstreasures.com
Sara's Smile, Inc. is a
non-profit
organization created for the sole purpose of comforting bereaved
mommies
with a Sare Bear®. Children die through miscarriage, stillbirth,
pediatric
illness or trauma. We offer the Sare Bear® to mommies as a response
to their heavy, empty, aching arms due to the loss of their beloved
child.
pregnancyloss.info - A web
site of information, hope and healing from pregnancy loss.
Children's Grief - the
Baby
Sibling Grief site
November 10, 2005 - The Beth Israel Medical Center Perinatal
Bereavement
Program hosted "
Guest Speaker: Dr. Joann Galst, Grief Counselor
Ruth Gabay, LCSW 212-844-8524
Joanne Rutland, LCSW 212-420-2977
You can search for other
Perinatal
Bereavement Programs
The
Midwife
and the Bereaved Family by Jane Warland
Pregnancy Loss
Psychological
Reactions by Frederick R. Jelovsek MD
A book that helped me was Motherhood
After
Miscarriage by Kathleen Diamond; she's a doctor who miscarried
then birthed then miscarried 4-5 more times. She's been thru the
gamut.
homebirthbabyloss
mailing list - This list is for women were interested in or planning a
homebirth but lost their baby anytime in pregnancy or early infancy.
A Trisomy 18
Journey
- Abigail Grace Wilsford - the site includes the story of a baby
who
was diagnosed prenatally with Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome), who was
carried
to term, and who lived for 5 days. It addresses the issue of getting an
"incompatible with life" prenatal diagnosis, deciding to carry-to-term,
making decisions about what palliative care means for an infant, and
grieving
the loss of an infant. It includes trisomy 18, grief, and
carrying-to-term
resources as well as personal stories and a grief journal.
Waiting with Gabriel - A
Story
of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life By Amy Kuebelbeck - "a memoir
about
my son, who was diagnosed prenatally with hypoplastic left heart
syndrome.
The book is an account of our personal story, and it also addresses
larger
issues including the limits of medicine; continuing a pregnancy despite
a devastating diagnosis; attitudes and practices regarding miscarriage,
stillbirth and infant death; and ultimately dying well."
Planned Homebirth of a Stillborn Baby
- Women who have experienced a fetal demise are most in need of the
tender
care available at a homebirth. This article explains some of the
legal and practical complexities that most of us would rather not think
about. Please be advised that this article is about California
law
- other states' laws may be very different.
The Natural Death Care
Project
(NDCP) is dedicated to a compassionate & dignified alternative
to current funeral practices
12 Truths Regarding Perinatal
Loss - For Those Who Have Had Miscarriages from Georgia
Reproductive
Specialists
The Child Bereavement Trust cares for bereaved parents and children by offering training and support to the professional.
They
also
offer some Useful Links
Footprints
on
our Hearts: How to Cope After a Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Newborn
Death
and
At
a
Loss for Words: How to Help Those You Care for in a Miscarriage,
Stillbirth
or Newborn Death by Paraclete Video Productions
Houston's Aid In Neonatal Death - The
H.A.N.D. Web Site. We are a Houston based pregnancy and infant loss
support group for parents whose babies have died any time from
conception
through late infancy. Our mission is to help parents cope with feelings
of grief and isolation which accompany the loss of a baby.
HAND , which stands for Helping After Neonatal Death, is a non-profit, volunteer group founded in the early 1980's to provide support and information to bereaved parents, their families and friends following a miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death. They are located in Northern California, -888-908-HAND or 1-408-995-6102.
They also have a good Resources list.
Information written for care providers about Support
for parents experiencing perinatal loss from the Canadian
Pediatric Society
William &
Wendell:
A Family Remembered by Donnali Fifield "offers reassurance, and a
welcome
measure of relief, for those who are struggling to recover from a
loss."
[The first chapter is available to be read online.]
Grieving and Healing by Holly
Richardson,
CD, ICCE
Hygeia Foundation and
Institute
for Perinatal Loss and Bereavement
Cristin's
Hope - Caring support & information for families enduring
neonatal
loss. This is a terrific site, including a page where you can
post
a memorial to your child, some good articles and links, poetry, email
&
online support groups, and a very important section on Marriage
Support.
The dimensions of grief are many: Shock, Guilt, Anger, Shame, Anxiety, Sadness, Longing, Loneliness, Helplessness, Yearning, Separation Pain, Reconciliation, and Depression. Do not chastise yourself for any of them.
A few ways to help you cope are:
Depression,
Anxiety
Due to Pregnancy Loss Can Persist for Years [2011] - No, there's
nothing wrong with you if you didn't "get over it" within a short
period
of time.
Rape-Related Pregnancy
and Pregnancy Loss
I Will Hold You In My Heart Forever - A Baby Book for Little Angels - created by a bereaved mother to support other parents who have lost a child through their grief journey.
Loss Comfort
Gifts from Earth Mama Angel Baby
Miscarriage
and
Infant Loss Memorial Jewelry and Sympathy
Cards
for Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Loss from labelledame.com
The Comfort
Company
- we have carefully selected or custom designed a meaningful collection
of sympathy, bereavement and condolence gift ideas with the hope of
bringing
comfort and remembrance to those who are grieving.
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