Resources

This is a simple list of resources we've found helpful.

Bereaved Parent blogs, websites, and support groups:

• Still Standing Magazine - surviving child loss and infertility
• Pregnancy After Loss Support - choosing hope over fear while nurturing grief
• Seeing Thestrals - living and growing after baby loss
• Compassionate Friends - providing grief support after the death of a child
• HAND - helping after neonatal death
• One Pink Balloon - learning how to be a mother to a star and a rainbow

Memorial gifts and tokens:

• Etsy shops with personalized gifts:
• Imprinted Memories
• Stamped Under The Moon
• The Shabby Chic Shoppe
• Personalized stuffed animals
• Molly Bears - weighted memorial teddy bears
• CarlyMarie Project Heal - beach art and photography
• The Cooper Project - memorial necklaces
• Remembering Together Ornament Swap - sign up and make an ornament for another bereaved family, while someone makes one for you
• Consider something handmade to help your loved ones.  Handmade cards, jewelry, blankets, suncatchers, etc. can all be very meaningful.

Books:

• You Are Not Alone: Love Letters from Loss Mom to Loss Mom, by Emily R. Long
• Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple, by Nathalie Himmelrich
• A Grief Workbook for Skeptics: Surviving Loss Without Religion, by Carol Fiore
• Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing To Do With God, by Greta Christina
• The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, by Barbara D. Rosof