Grieving for your loss

Websites

  • A Bed for My Heart - A place to rest your grieving heart and let its truth spill outside the covers.

  • Alive Alone - For bereaved parents whose only child or all children have died. This site provides a self-help network and newsletter to promote communication and healing.

  • Baby Steps - Named after the baby steps that form the long and difficult road to recovery from the loss of a child.

  • Bereaved Parents of the USA (BPUSA) - Offers support, care, and compassion for bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents.

  • Buzzy Bee’s - help other parents who have lost a child with support financially and emotionally

  • Center for Loss in Multiple Birth - Supports parents who have experienced the death of one or more twins or higher multiples at any time from conception through birth, infancy and childhood.

  • Centering Corporation - A non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and resources for the bereaved, including bereaved parents and siblings.

  • Comfort Zone Camp - A nonprofit camp for siblings and children (age 7-17) coping with the loss of a sibling or parent.

  • Dougy Center for Grieving Children - Provides support in a safe place where children, teens and their families grieving a death can share their experiences as they move through their grief process.

  • Ectopic Pregnancy Trust - Established to raise awareness of ectopic pregnancies amongst women of childbearing age, the medical profession and the general public.

  • Facts About Miscarriage - Offers information and support for those experiencing or who have experienced a miscarriage.

  • Grief Watch/Perinatal Loss - Offers spiritual, emotional and other support to persons who are grieving through bereavement resources, memorial items, and links. The site and its resources are all created by, for, or in memory of someone who has gone through the process of perinatal loss or bereavement.

  • Group B Strep Association - Dedicated to the fight against GBS infection by serving the public as a resource of information and support.

  • Griefnet - Offers e-mail support groups for the bereaved including parents, siblings, and grandparents. It also offers a wide variety of bereavement related content including a comprehensive resource guide of bereavement organizations and a sister Web site for bereaved children.

  • Glow In The Woods - For parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds. In the beginning you stagger, disoriented, through this storm. We want to be a glow through the trees, a golden refuge of log and glass.

  • Hayden’s Helping Hands - Hayden’s Helping Hands assists Oregon families after the birth of a stillborn baby by paying for a portion or all of their hospital delivery medical expenses.

  • INCIID - The InterNational Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, a nonprofit organization that helps individuals and couples explore their family-building options. INCIID provides current information and immediate support regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infertility and pregnancy loss, and offers guidance to those considering adoption or child-free lifestyles.

  • Loss of All in Multiple Birth Support - Closed Facebook support group for those who have had a complete loss of multiples (twins, triplets, quadruplets or higher).  If you are having problems joining, email the moderator for assistance: cynthia.jenks@gmail.com

  • Maya’s Wings Foundation - IVF Resources - Support, Outcomes, Advocacy, and Research

  • Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death (MEND) - A Christian not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is to reach out to those who have lost a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death through support groups, a quarterly newsletter and Web site.

  • Mothers in Support and Sympathy (MISS) Foundation - A non-profit organization providing immediate and ongoing support to grieving families and caregivers.

  • National Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support, Inc. - Share serves those who have experienced the death of a baby due to early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or in the first few months of life.

  • National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center = Provides information services and technical assistance on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and related topics with a goal of promoting an understanding of SIDS and providing comfort to those affected by SIDS through information sharing.

  • Nora Madelyn Fund for Infant and Child Loss - An Oregon-based, non-profit fund that provides resources to families who have experienced pregnancy loss or the death of a child. Recognizing the emotional impact on medical professionals and caregivers who attend to these families, Nora’s Fund also provides support and educational resources to assist these professionals and caregivers in their work.

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Through its nationwide network of professional photographers, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep will arrange a tasteful private sitting at the hospital with no charge for any services or pictures.

  • Parents - Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.

  • Resolve: The National Infertility Association - Provides education, advocacy and support for women and men facing infertility, including a help line, a physician referral service, and a monthly magazine.

  • Silent Grief - Meant to be a safe place of healing, support, and hope during a time of grief, loneliness, and depression. Includes articles, forums and other resources of Christian-based support.

  • Still Standing - A real magazine for bereaved parents “who just like any other community and walk of life” want to feel normal, connected by a common thread. Though tragic, it is somewhat comforting that we don’t walk these dark paths alone.

  • Twinless Twins Support Group - Supports twins and other multiples who suffer from the loss of their twin through death or estrangement. is an e-mail list specifically for those who have lost all their children in a multiple birth, whether their loss is recent or years ago.

  • Willamette Valley Pregnancy & Infant Loss - Providing conversation and support for those in Oregon’s Willamette Valley who lost a little one much too soon. Our in-person support group meets from 7-9 pm on the second Thursday of each month at the Ike Box in downtown Salem, OR. For more information, contact Annie: 503-510-0417 annie@salembirthsupport.com

Books

Many of these books are available through Amazon, and/or Grief Watch: