Bereavement Resources

Articles

The following articles are provided as a helpful tool for bereaved families. We will add articles periodically, so please visit again as we make additional information available.

Suggested Reading

  • Multiples-Specific
    A Different Kind of Mother by Christine Howser (Specific to loss of all)
    (Available at www.1stbooks.com)
  • William and Wendell by Donnali Fifield (Specific to complicated grief issues and loss of all)
    (Available at www.timestwopublishing.com)
  • Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss and Survival by William Woodwell (Specific to loss of one twin)
  • Embracing Laura by Martha Wegner-Hay (Specific to Selective Reduction)
    (Available through Centering Corporation, www.centeringcorporation.org)
  • The Diary by Lynne Schulz (Specific to continuing pregnancy after a loss)
    (Available at Murraylands)
  • Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
    by Deborah H. Davis, Ph.D
  • When the Bough Breaks: The Death of a Child
    by S.C. Holtkamp
  • A Broken Heart Still Beats
    by Anne McCracken and Mary Semel
  • Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief
    by Martha Whitmore Hickman

Online Resources

  • Multiple-Specific Resources and Support Organizations
    Multiplicity: Resources for Loss, Prematurity and Special Needs
    www.synspectrum.com/multiplicity.html
    Site includes articles on many aspects of multiple birth loss for parents and caregivers, and an extensive resource listing, by a physician who is also a bereaved multiple birth parent
  • Multiple Births Families
    www.multiplebirthsfamilies.com/bereavement.html
    Site includes a large section on bereavement by a childbirth educator who is also the bereavement coordinator for Multiple Births Canada?Naissances multiples Canada (loss@multiplebirthscanada.org)
  • Multiple Births Foundation
    http://www.multiplebirths.org.uk/shop.asp#booklets
    Among its publications, booklets for parents and professionals on complications of monochorionic twinning, bereavement, fetal reduction (multifetal pregnancy reduction) and selective fetocide (selective termination)
  • Center for Loss in Multiple Birth, Inc., www.climb-support.org
    Nonprofit organization providing parent-to-parent support for those who have the death of one or more of twins or higher multiple birth children at any time from conception through birth, infancy and early childhood. Also provides assistance to extended families, caregivers, twins and multiples organizations and others who are seeking to understand and support the needs of parents with a multiple birth loss.
  • LAMBS, Loss of All in Multiple Birth Support
    Email support group families that have experienced the death of all multiples. Join by invitation only. Contact www.public.iastate.edu/~cjenks/lambs.html)
  • Loss in Multiple Birth Outreach (eLIMBO)
    www.onelist.com/community/eLIMBO
    eLIMBO, (electronic)Loss In Multiple Birth Outreach, is a support network for parents who have lost one or more children in a multiple birth situation (e.g., twin, triplet, quadruplet, etc.). This list, founded in December 1995, offers grief support for all parents of deceased multiples from the newly bereaved to those who experienced a loss several years ago. This includes: miscarriage, stillbirth, selective reduction, loss of one or more multiples in utero, neonatal and childhood death.
  • Loss after IVF
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LossAfterIVF/
    Group for parents who have lost a child after going through the invitro fertilization process.
  • RESOLVE National Infertility Association
    www.resolve.org
    Nonprofit organization that provides timely, compassionate support and information to people who are experiencing infertility and to increase awareness of infertility issues through public education and advocacy.
    General Bereavement Support
  • M.I.S.S. Foundation www.missfoundation.org
    The MISS Foundation provides crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause. MISS also participates in legislative and advocacy issues, community engagement and volunteerism, and culturally competent, multidisciplinary, education opportunities.
  • SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, Inc http://www.nationalshareoffice.com
    The mission of Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, Inc. is to serve those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or in the first few months of life. All information packets, correspondence, and support are free of charge for bereaved parents.
  • Feelings of the Fathers, http://www.thelaboroflove.com/forum/loss/fathers.html
    A site dedicated to fathers who are suffering the loss of their child. Includes links articles and links to other father-specific web pages. A good starting point for a father.