Services offered via video from Los Angeles, CA
Loss Support
Support & Resources for Loss
This is an amazing organization that provides so 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.
Click on For Parents to see what topics are most helpful to you.
Postpartum Support International
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Group
Our online Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support group provides a connection for mothers grieving the loss of their baby. Led by PSI trained facilitators, this group helps bereaved mothers find support as well as provides useful information and resources to help navigate loss.
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.
Still Birth Day | A Pregnancy Loss is Still a Birthday
Support for loss at all stages of pregnancy.
A group of moms and dads who have made the decision to end a wanted pregnancy following a poor prenatal diagnosis or for maternal health reasons.
Support for those who have terminated a much wanted pregnancy.
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.
Mom & Mind Podcast
- Miscarriages and a Rainbow Baby Ep. 129
- Expectful – Guided Meditation for Pregnancy Loss & Beyond Ep. 75
- 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