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Resources

Creating birth plans

http://www.geocities.com/tabris02/tips-birth.html

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

Books

Perinatal loss recommended reading list
http://www.nationalshareoffice.com/catalog_frame.asp

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/AngelsAbove.html

Sue Fernandes (pastel portraits and pencil sketches)
email: suefernandes@optusnet.com.au
phone (Australia): +61 2 6458 4227

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Article by Kay Squires, with special thanks to Valerie, Holly, and Marion, and the members of the PROM list
January 2005

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 Preparing for loss
Intro
Your rights
Timeframe
How to deliver
Medications
Delivery plan
 - Before delivery
 - After delivery
• Saying good-bye
 - Before delivery
 - After delivery
 - Photographs
 - Mementos
 - Naming your baby
 - People to call

Paperwork

Remembering

Resources

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