"The sharing of hurt is the beginning of healing"
Suggested Reading
Everyone’s circumstances are different, so we have listed some publications that may be of help and comfort for you and your family.
For The Adults
You Are Not Alone - A New way to grieve
A Gift of Words - A moving collection of more than one hundred poems written by parents, grandparents, siblings, and other family members in respect of their own personal experience of the death of a baby.
Ask Me His Name - Learning to live and laugh again after the loss of my baby.
Philomena - The true story of a mother and the son she had to give away.
From a Clear Blue Sky- We all have a car crash in our lives. To date I have had one; it happened to be a bomb I was a boy at the time, on a small boat in Ireland. Three of my family and a friend died in the explosion. One of the dead was my identical twin brother Nicholas.
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns - When the author's second child is stillborn and all atempts to have another baby fail, she starts to consider every possible option, no matter how unorthodox.
The Lone Twin - Understanding Twin Bereavement and Loss This book includes parental attitudes to the surviving twin, the feelings of the surviving twin and the effect of loss in adulthood
For The Children
We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel - When Hello Means Goodbye." Created especially for children who are suffering the loss of their families pregnancy
The Memory Tree - A celebration of life and the memories that live on when a loved one dies.
Stewarts Tree - A Book for Brothers and Sisters When a Baby Dies Shortly after Birth