I’m so sorry you’re here.

No one should have to come home from the hospital with empty arms. This is an evolving space for families to come to for every Stillbirth resource that is available world-wide.

Organizations

Push Pregnancy is an advocacy group that pushes for the end of preventable stillbirth.

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep provides families with remembrances (photographs, touchup of photos) after stillbirth.

March of Dimes fights for the health of all birthing people and babies.

Count the Kicks An organization that helps reduce stillbirth by advocating for counting fetal movement.

Measure the Placenta is centered around educating the public about the importance of measuring the placenta during routine ultrasounds to prevent stillbirth.

Born Still Foundation provides mental support and care packages for families after loss.

Missing Alex- An outreach and support network for loss parents. They provide hospitals with the memorial kits families leave the hospital with.

Molly Bears- An organization that makes weighted bears for angel parents.

Adalyn Rose Foundation offers grief support after loss and so much more.

Grieving Dads- A website for dad identifying folks to talk about their loss.

The Miss Foundation-An organization that connects grieving families to support through mentorship, finding providers, and more.

Star Legacy is dedicated to reducing pregnancy loss and neonatal death through policy work, research, and more. Star Legacy also provides much needed support after loss.

Sands UK- The leading organization for stillbirth prevention and family support in the UK.

Angel Baby- A resource for loss families of Canada

Féileacáin- The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland.

Stillbirth Foundation of Australia- Australia’s official Stillbirth Foundation.

https://stillbirthday.com/- An organization that provides support after love and for pregnancy after loss.

 

Books & Articles

By Subject

Stillbirth, Miscarriage, & Pregnancy Loss

They Were Still Born edited by Janel C. Atlas

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Home/Birth: A Poemic by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker

The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich

Dancing with the Midwives by Ann Faison

Ghostbelly by Elizabeth Heineman

Sunshine After the Storm edited by Alexa H. Bigwarfe and Regina Petsch

Three Minus One by Sean Hanish

To Linger on Hot Coals by Stephanie Paige Cole and Catherine Bayly

Baby Dust by Deanna Roy

Still by Stephanie Paige Cole

You are the Mother of All Mothers by Angela Miller

The Good Grief Club by Monica Novak

Vessels by Daniel Raeburn

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies

Motherhood Lost by Linda L. Layne

Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney

Life Touches Life by Lorraine Ash

About What Was Lost edited by Jessica Berger Gross

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

Path of Totality by Niina Pollari

Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart by Deborah Davis

Grieving the Child I Never Knew: A Devotional

Companion for Comfort in the Loss of Your

Unborn Or Newly Born Child by Kathe Wunnenberg

Child Loss

The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp

Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Comfort: A Journey through Grief by Ann Hood

Where Reason Ends by Yiyun Li

Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene

Holding Silvan by Monica Wesolowska

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Gabriel by Edward Hirsch

Say Something Back by Denise Riley

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt

Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Other Grief: Partner, Parent, Friend, General Loss

It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort

No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias

The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch

Momma Zen by Karen Maezen Miller

Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok by Megan Devine

The Gifts of Grief by Therese Tappouni

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About edited by Michele Filgate

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Now My Heart is Full by Laura June

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein

The Carrying by Ada Limon

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon

Modern Loss: Candid Conversations about Grief by Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins

The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams

Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel


Articles

A Realization About Grief by Kate Suddes

How We Saved Our Marriage After Our Daughter Was Stillborn By Kelsey Francis

Wishing the World Could be More Soft by Kelsey Francis

Talking About Stillbirth is Making Maya Vander Feel Less Alone by Kate Suddes

Living With Ghosts by Kate Suddes

Nobody Wants to Talk About it When a Baby Dies. Here’s Why We Need to by Kate Suddes

Store in a Cool Dry Place by Kate Suddes

Paul’s Song on His 7th Birthday or a Fan Letter to M. Ward by Kate Suddes

A Gravesite and a Birthplace by Kate Suddes

Motherhood Mondays: ‘I Had a Stillbaby.’ by Kate Suddes

Medical Professionals who specialize in stillbirth research

Dr. Harvey Kliman- One of the only Dr.’s to look into cause of stillbirth through placental research. He helps families world-wide get answers for cause of death.

Dr. Jason Collins- is focused on stillbirth, cord acccidents, and cord compressions as cause of death.