Creating birth plans
The University of North Carolina Center for Maternal and Infant Health has a special birth plan for families anticipating a perinatal loss: http://www.mombaby.org/index.php?c=1&s=57&p=348
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.org - 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.nationalshare.org/
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
Other helpful links
Postpartum depression
http://www.postpartum.net
Perinatal loss resource websites
http://www.babylosskit.com/resources.html
http://www.babyloss.com
Remembering your baby
Stepping stones, and other memorial gifts
http://www.thecomfortcompany.net
Artists who can make drawings of your baby
Heather Spears (pencil drawings)
http://www.heatherspears.com/drawings/bereavement.htm
Portraits by Dana (pencil portraits)
http://www.portraitsbydana.com
Sue Fernandes (pastel portraits and pencil sketches)
More information about Sue
email: suefernandes@optusnet.com.au
phone (Australia): +61 2 6458 4227