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.