Helpful reading material & resources
Angel Chase and His Mommy's Sign
by Colleen Severance Connelly
The website is about the book "Angel Chase and His Mommy's
Sign", the story behind the book and also includes a blog page with additional
musings by the author and those shared by others.
A Place to Remember: Home Page
Comprehensive Infant/Miscarriage Loss Links
A Place to Remember: Links and Resources
Provides uplifting support materials and resources for those who have been touched by a crisis in pregnancy or the death of a baby. Excellent resource for Grief and Infant loss books, cards and mementos.
Bereavement Magazine
Designed to be a "support group in print" - a friend who arrives in the mailbox. six times each year.
The Fertile Female, How the Power of Longing for a Child can Save Your Life and Change the World
by Julia Indichova
This book documents almost a decade and a half of research, and teaching, and outlines the Fertile Heart™ Conceptions Tools, that have given thousands of women the confidence to follow their own wisdom and overcome allegedly insurmountable obstacles.
Forgotten Tears: A Grandmother's Journey Through Grief
by Nina Bennett
Forgotten Tears is a unique and honest portrayal of a grandmother's grief journey following the stillbirth of her granddaughter. A distinctive feature of this book is the validation of grandparents as mourners in their own right.
Although the main emphasis is on miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death, the exploration of the grief process is applicable to the death of a grandchild at any age. Forgotten Tears challenges the very concept of resolution and openly discusses the belief that grief is an ongoing,lifelong process. Numerous suggestions for coping and ways to memorialize deceased grandchildren are offered.
Haloes Lending Library
Gina Johnson started a lending library in memory of her son Phillip Thomas who was stillborn on November 28, 1999, at full term. If you're interested in starting a lending library in your local support group she provides a wonderful list of books that are helpful. You can also make a donation to her lending library in your child's name and if your local hospital is in need of books she can also help provide the resources and may fund some of the cost.
Journeys: Stories of Pregnancy After Loss
Published by WovenWord Press
A collection of chapter pairs highlighting pregnancy loss and subsequent pregnancy. Each parent describes the loss experience, his or her grief process, and how they coped through the next anxiety-ridden pregnancy.
Life Touches Life: A Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing
by Lorraine Ash
The author shares her journey of losing her daughter and only child, Victoria Helen who died in utero on the day that should have been her birthday. Victoria succumbed to a Group B Strep infection that almost killed her mother, too. During the difficult and life-transforming months and years that followed, Ash wrote the book she longed for but could not find. Life Touches Life is a road map from pain and chaos to understanding and acceptance.
Mitchell Journey
by Kathy Jo (Dragsten) Haugan
Written by a mother who wrote (and self published) a book about her
son and her journey through grief. Mitchell David died at almost three months
of age from complications from being born with Down Syndrome.
Our Baby, Our Love, Our Loss
by Kathi Evans BSN, RNC
In Our Baby, Our Love, Our Loss you will share with the Evans family the emotional, physical, and spiritual roller coaster surrounding the loss of their child at the beginning of the fifth month of pregnancy. Kathi shares honestly and from her heart the things that "we did 'right' and learned from, as well as the things we did 'wrong,' from which we learned even more."
Kathi understands that for a person who is struggling to "make sense out of the senseless," it's not about "right or wrong," but rather about how to heal from the tragic loss of a baby more gracefully. You'll find suggestions for Dad, what to say to your other children, how to celebrate your child, and how and when to "move on," as well as practical tips on everyday things, like rest and nutrition. When all is said and done, it is Evans' hope that along with the tears, healthy anger, and maybe even a few chuckles, will come healing.
Stressed Out!!!
by Mary L. Reed-Gates
Understanding how stress ravages the nervous system and how to protect and regain its health. Book is available through Amazon.
Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility
by Janet Jaffe, PhD, Martha Diamond, PhD and David Diamond, PhD
Unsung Lullabies is unique among self-help books on infertility. Couples often feel like they’re going crazy and ask, why does it hurt ‘so bad?’ Unsung Lullabies acknowledges the trauma and costs –emotional, physical, and financial– of infertility while it delves into the deeper psychological issues couples face.
The authors, three psychologists who have faced infertility themselves, show couples how to:
* Reduce their sense of helplessness and isolation
* Identify their mates’ coping styles to erase unfair expectations
* Listen to their “unsung lullabies” — their conscious and unconscious dreams about having a family — to mourn the losses of infertility and move on.
Ground-breaking, wise, and compassionate, Unsung Lullabies is a necessary companion for anyone coping with infertility.
Wintergreen Press
Sherokee Ilse is a Bereaved Parent, International Speaker and Author of Empty Arms and many other books. Mission: To help improve the care families receive during and after the death of their child or loved one of any age. We commit to publish and distribute sensitive, quality products, to respond as soon as possible, and to network and help locate resources to aid grieving families and the care providers who serve them. Wintergreen Press is located in Minnesota.