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Resources

Creating birth plans

Maine Medical Center sample birthplan (keep in mind this was not written for parents expecting a loss) http://www.mmc.org/mmc_community/Birthplan.pdf

Phone or in-person support

PROM list: Click here to join the PROM list so we can support you through your grief.
You are not alone.
The Compassionate Friends
In the US: 877-969-0010, 630-990-0010
www.compassionatefriends.com
MISS (Mothers In Sympathy & Support)
In the US: 623-979-1000
http://www.missfoundation.org
SANDS (Stillbirth And Neonatal Death Society)
In UK: Helpline 020-7436-5881, office 020-7436-7940
http://www.uk-sands.org
SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support
In the US: 800-821-6819
http://www.nationalshareoffice.com

Books

PROM list members especially recommend:

For ideas for how to deal with the shock of finding out you will lose your baby, and planning for his or her birth:
-- Help, Comfort and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or in the First Year
by Hannah Lothrop
-- A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss (Chapter 6: Crisis Pregnancies and Loss)
by Ingrid Kohn and Perry-Lynn Moffitt
For coping after you come home from the hospital:
-- Empty Arms
by Sherokee Ilse http://www.wintergreenpress.com
-- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
by Deborah L. Davis
-- When a Baby Dies, the Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
by Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley