Books
Some suggestions of books that may be of interest to you...
Couple Communication After A Baby Dies
by Sherokee Ilse and David Nelson
Bereaved Parents often don’t communicate their feelings and needs well, leading to confusion, assumptions, mistrust, and often tension. However, through thoughtful communication, improved understanding, and openness, relationships can be significantly improved. This new small book offers a unique approach to a difficult but important subject. Ilse and Nelson teamed up to offer not only their individual perspectives as a woman and man following the deaths of their children, but also to share how they and their spouses met the challenges couples face. Good background information is offered on topics such as brain differences, personality and childhood influences, myths, and more. Other couples weigh in and thought provoking questions are added to the back for personal use or for book discussion, support groups, or during counseling sessions.
Empty Arms
by Sherokee Ilse
Empty Arms is a unique and encouraging book that reaches out to all who have been touched by infant death or miscarriage. It is the first written material newly bereaved parents should turn to when they learn their baby has died. With compassion and sensitivity, the author, who has been there herself, offers practical suggestions and support for the decision-making at the time of the loss and in the days and months that follow. Contains an excellent bibliography and resource section.
I Will Hold You In My Heart Forever - A Baby Book For Little Angels
by Michelle Murray
CHAPTERS INCLUDE: In The Beginning, Pregnancy Moments, Family Tree, Showers, The World Around You, Hello Little One, Your Illness, Hospital Stay, Taking Care of You, Every Day A Miracle, The Day You Died, Funeral Details, Final Resting Place, Hopes and Dreams, Holding You In My Heart, Websites and Support Groups. Comes in a special loose leaf binder allowing you the ability to remove pages that are not applicable to your baby’s story. Can also be expand to add photo sleeves and keepsakes.
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back
by Kelly Farley
A collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child. This book is a collection of survival stories by men who have survived the worst possible loss and lived to tell the tale. They are real stories that pull no punches and are told with brutal honesty. Men that have shared their deepest and darkest moments. Moments that included thoughts of suicide, self-medication and homelessness. Some of these men have found their way back from the brink while others are still standing there, stuck in their pain. The core message of Grieving Dads is “you’re not alone.”
by Kelly Farley
A collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child. This book is a collection of survival stories by men who have survived the worst possible loss and lived to tell the tale. They are real stories that pull no punches and are told with brutal honesty. Men that have shared their deepest and darkest moments. Moments that included thoughts of suicide, self-medication and homelessness. Some of these men have found their way back from the brink while others are still standing there, stuck in their pain. The core message of Grieving Dads is “you’re not alone.”
- Help, Comfort & Hope
- They Were Still Born
- Pregnancy After A Loss by Jane Warland
- Power of Positive Thinking
- When Bad Things Happen To Good People
- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
- Stillborn: The Invisible Death
- Life Touches Life: A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth & Healing
- Comforting Those Who Grieve
- I’ll Hold You in Heaven
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven
- Heaven is For Real
- Tear Soup
- All That is Seen And Unseen: A journey through first trimester miscarriage
- Asleep in Heaven’s Nursery
- The Anguish of Loss
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
- Born to Fly: An Infants Journey to God
- Dear Cheyenne: A Journey Into Grief
- For the Love of Angela
- From Crisis to Purpose
- From Sorrow to Serenity
- Grieving the Child I Never Knew
- Helping You Cope and Recover From the Loss of a Baby
- Holding on to Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God
- Hope is Like the Sun
- I Will Carry You – The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy
- Memories Too Few – A Letter to Parents
- Mending Invisible Wings – Healing From the Loss of Your Baby
- Misscarriage: A Shattered Dream
- The SIDS Survival Guide
- A Silent Sorrow
- Silent GriefTo Full Term – A Mother’s Triumph Over Miscarriage
- Too Soon A Memory
- When Hello Means Goodbye
- Living Without Your Twin
- My Twin Vanished – Did Yours?
- Twin Loss
- For Better or Worse – A Handbook for Couples Whose Child Has Died
- Healing a Father’s Grief
- Grieving Dads – To the Brink and Back
- Men Don’t Cry – Women Do
- A Man You Know is Grieving – 12 Ideas For Helping Him Heal From Loss
- A Bereaved Father
- When A Man Faces Grief
- Another Baby – Maybe
- Journeys – Stories of Pregnancy After Loss
- Pregnancy After A Loss – A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Death
- Still To Be Born
- Trying Again – A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Loss
- When Pregnancy Follows A Loss
- A Gift of Time – Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Babys Life is Expected to be Brief
- Precious Lives, Painful Choices
- A Prenatal Decision Making Guide
- Waiting With Gabriel – A Story of Cherishing A Babys Brief LIfe
- Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss: A Guide For Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers, Chaplains and other Bedside Care Givers
- When A Baby Dies
- Angel Chase and His Mommy’s Sign
- Molly’s Rose Bush
- My Baby Big Sister: A Book For Children Born Subsequent to a Pregnancy Loss
- No New Baby: For Siblings Who Have a Brother or Sister Die Before Birth
- Something Happened – We Were Going to Have A Baby But We Had An Angel Instead
- Talking About Death – A Dialogue Between Parent and Child
- Where is Chloe?
- Remembering Our Baby
- Where Are You – A Child’s Book About Loss
- An Angel in the Sky
- I Know Someone Who Died
- Common Threads of Teenage Grief – a Handbook for Healing
- Helping Children Cope With the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups
- Always My Twin