Loss
Support & Resources for Loss
This amazing organization provides many resources for those who have experienced miscarriage, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), other types of pregnancy loss (ectopic pregnancy, blighted ovum, molar pregnancy), neonatal death, infant death, and toddler death.
Postpartum Support International
Online Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support groups led by PSI trained facilitators help bereaved parents find support as well as provide useful information and resources to help navigate loss.
Online support site, face-to-face support groups in certain areas, and HOPE Mentors available all over the world.
HAND of the Bay Area, Helping After Neonatal Death
Northern California based nonprofit that offers free empathetic peer support to parents and their loved ones who are grieving the loss of a baby before, during or after birth.
Several groups are offered for free, online, and in English and Spanish. They include bereaved parents, pregnancy after loss, dads grief, grandparents grief, parenting after loss, and coping with SUID/SIDS and infant death.
Share - Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support
Online and in-person support services, education, and events throughout the US.
Empty Arms Bereavement Support (TFMR)
This Massachusetts based organization specifically offers their TFMR support groups nationally.
The Finley Project® provides a lifeline for mothers in the minutes, hours and days after infant loss through a 7-Part Holistic Program that supports each mother physically, emotionally and spiritually at no financial cost to them. While they are located in FL they offer nationwide support.
Still Birth Day | A Pregnancy Loss is Still a Birthday
Support for loss at all stages of pregnancy.
A group of parents who have made the decision to end a wanted pregnancy following a poor prenatal diagnosis or for maternal health reasons. Private support groups available for abortion, TFMR, maternal health risk, and more.
A blog of stories where individuals had no good choices, sought out as much information as they could, and made the most loving and selfless decision possible.
Resources, podcast, support groups, education, and more built by one parent who experienced shattering loss in 2020.
Hand to Hold | NICU Babies | Support for Bereaved Families
This is a subpage of a NICU family organization and offers support groups, counseling, one-on-one peer support, a podcast, resources, and articles.
Seeks to compassionately lift a financial burden from families who have lost a child by providing funds to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services. They also offer parents comprehensive bereavement care in the form of grief support groups and peer companions.
Podcasts
- The Miscarriage Therapist Podcast
- Mom & Mind - Miscarriages and a Rainbow Baby Ep. 129
- Mom & Mind - Expectful – Guided Meditation for Pregnancy Loss & Beyond Ep. 75
- Mom & Mind - Pregnancy Loss: Termination for Medical Reasons Ep. 237
Books
- It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief & Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
- I Had A Miscarriage: A Memoir, A Movement #IHadaMiscarriage
- At a Loss: Finding Your Way After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death
- A Loss Misunderstood: Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage
- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
- Birth Story Held for Loss: A Guide for Reflecting on Your Fertility Experience, Miscarriage, Abortion, TFMR, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss
TED Talks
- The M-Word: Shattering the Silence on Miscarriage | Lisa Hanasono
- Breaking the Silence of Pregnancy Loss | Tanika Dillard
Dads
Sometimes dads are left out of the grieving and processing experience because the loss didn't happen to their bodies. However, dads feel many things: the loss of growing the family, feeling helpless about what is happening to their partner, traumatized watching their partner go through the physical and emotional loss, and so much more.
- Return to Zero has many resources for fathers/partners experiencing loss.
- Dad Still Standing podcast is two dads discussing baby loss, coping with life, and working their way through grief.
- Men & Miscarriage is a blog with three articles, from a man’s perspective, that might be helpful.
- Dad's Grief Discussion Group is a free online support group out of Minneapolis by Star Legacy Foundation.
- Sad Dads Club is a safe, supportive community for dads out of Maine.
- Guys and Grief Podcast for men who have experienced pregnancy or infant loss.
- Healing Toolkits for Men by the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care.
- Dads with Wisdom offers mens support groups for perinatal loss online out of Maryland (contact them as the groups aren't currently listed on the website).
For Body
Pregnancy & Postpartum TV added this resource in response to one of their friend’s loss so she could continue to care for her body and not be triggered by a postpartum yoga workout because not everyone who is postpartum has a baby. Postpartum Yoga For Bereaved Mothers (Coping with miscarriage or stillbirth pregnancy loss)
Newspaper/Online Article