Literature
Listed below are books or other literature that can help with the grieving process.
For Children
Explaining Feelings and Emotions
F is for Feelings — Goldie Millar
Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins — Enid Samuel Traisman
I Was So Mad — Mercer Mayer
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings — Jo Witek & Christine Roussey
My Many Colored Days — Dr. Seuss
The Huge Bag of Worries — Virginia Ironside
The Invisible String — Patrice Karst
The Way I Feel — Janan Cain
Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day — Jamie Lee Curtis
Visiting Feelings — Lauren Rubenstein
When You Just Have to Roar! — Rachel Robertson & Priscilla Prentice
Explaining Death and Loss to Children
No New Baby — Marilyn Gryte
Our Little Rainbow — Sabrina Crawford
Someone Came Before You — Pat Schwiebert
Something Happened: A Book for Children & Parents Who Have Experienced Pregnancy Loss — Cathy Blanford
Stella, Our Star: Coping with a Loss During Pregnancy — Mandi Kowalik
Sunshine: A Little Book About Loss and What Came Before — Shauna Castellaw
We Were Gonna Have a Baby, but We Had an Angel Instead — Pat Schwiebert
For Adults
A Guide for Fathers: When a Baby Dies — Tim Nelson
A Place to Remember: Memories of Our Baby — Memory Keepsake Book
A Silent Love — Adrienne Ryan
A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss – Guidance and Support for You and Your Family (Revised and Updated 2nd Edition) — Ingrid Kohn & Perry-Lynn Moffitt
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief — Joanne Cacciatore
Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child — Ellen Mitchell
Black Angel Mom Guided Journal — Jeanae Hopgood Jones
Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss: A Guide for Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers, Chaplains, and Other Bedside Caregivers — Jane Heustis & Marcia Jenkins
Coping With Holidays and Celebrations — Sherokee Ilse
Coping with Infertility, Miscarriage, and Neonatal Loss: Finding Perspective and Creating Meaning — Amy Wenzel
Couple Communication After a Baby Dies: Differing Perspectives — Sherokee Ilse & Tim Nelson
Embracing Laura? The Grief and Healing Following the Death of an Infant Twin — Martha Wegner
Empty Arms — Sherokee Ilse
Empty Arms — Pam Vredevelt
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby (Revised Edition) — Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D.
Forever Our Angels — Hannah Stone
Ghostbelly: A Memoir — Elizabeth Heineman
Grieving the Child I Never Knew: A Devotional for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn or Newly Born Child — Kate Wunnenberg
Handbook of Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care — Rana Limbo, Charlotte Wool & Brian Carter
Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies — Alan Wolfelt
Healing Together: For Couples Whose Baby Died — Marcie Lister & Sandra Lovell
Holding Space: On Loving, Dying and Letting Go — Amy Wright Glenn
How to Survive the Loss of a Child — Catherine M. Sanders
I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy — Angie Smith
I’ll Hold You in Heaven — Jack Hayford
I’ll Hold You in Heaven Remembrance Book — Jack Hayford
It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand — Megan Devine
Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide for Pregnancy After a Loss — Amanda Ross-White
Miscarriage After Infertility: A Woman’s Guide to Coping — Margaret Comerford Freda
Mother Care: Physical Care and Beyond After a Baby Dies — Sherokee Ilse
Newborn Death — Joy Johnson
Parenthood Lost — Michael R. Berman, MD
Perinatal Palliative Care: A Clinical Guide — Erin Denney-Koelsch & Denise Côté-Arsenault
Silent Birth: When Your Baby Dies — Sharon N. Covington
Single Parent Grief — Sherokee Ilse
Stillbirth, Yet Still Born: Grieving and Honoring Your Precious Baby — Deborah Davis
Talking with Children About Perinatal Loss — Author Unknown
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss — Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen
The Bereaved Parent — Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
The Burden of Choice: Collected Stories from Parents Facing a Diagnosis of Abnormalities During Pregnancy — Georgina Pearson
The Dreams of You — Memory Keepsake Book
The Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby’s Life is Expected to Be Brief — Amy Kuebelbeck & Deborah Davis
This Little While — Joy Johnson
Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss — Kim Kluger-Bell
Waiting for Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life — Amy Kuebelbeck
When a Baby Dies — Ronald Nash
When Hello Means Goodbye — Pat Schweibert & Paul Kirk
