Local Organizations
The Center for Loss and Bereavement, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, offers a place of comfort and professional support services for people experiencing profound loss and grief. Located in Skippack, PA, the Center has been a leading provider for over 20 years of professional grief counseling, support groups, and resources to individuals and families, helping them find strength, connection, and solace through the tragic circumstances of loss and death.
Location
3847 Skippack Pike
Skippack, PA 19474
Contact Info
(610) 222-4110
Butterfly Baskets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides support and comfort for families impacted by miscarriages, stillbirth, and infant loss. They provide care packages for women facing these heartbreaking losses and host events to foster a sense of community during bereavement. Their mission is to help grieving families and inspire hope during dark times.
Location
Located in the Exton Square Mall
Mailing Address
PO Box 1432
Malvern, PA 19355
Contact Info
(484) 321-2350
The Adalyn Rose Foundation provides comprehensive and continuous support to families grieving the loss of a child at any point during pregnancy, infancy, or early childhood. This includes but is not limited to, financial support for memorial expenses, coordinating and funding counseling services, and opportunities for community connection through support groups and their Adalyn Rose Friend program.
Location
2744 Century Blvd.
Wyomissing, PA 19610
Contact Info
(484) 509-1032
Noelle’s Light delivers financial support to distressed families that are receiving treatment & care following a life-threatening fetal diagnosis. Our efforts are dedicated to uplifting families during their time of need.
Location
309 Fellowship Road, Suite 200 PMB 749
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Contact Info
(856)-242-9400
Three Little Birds’ mission is to bridge the gap for perinatal loss families, advocates and professionals by providing empathetic support and resources at the time of loss and in the postpartum period for families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of an infant for families in the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region.
Location
Serving Philadelphia and South Jersey Metro Region
Contact Info
(856) 656-6436
A non-profit organization, that provides peer to peer grief support following the loss of a baby, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and infant death to parents in the Philadelphia area since 1975. UNITE offers a number of services to grieving parents and their caregivers including the following:
* Peer to Peer Grief Support Groups
* Literature
* Educational Programs
* Training Workshops
* Group Development Assistance
Location
P.O. Box 21715
Philadelphia PA 19146
Contact Info
(484) 758-0002
Today is a Good Day offers a Child Loss care package for families, including a One Day at a Time cotton zippered pouch, a journal, One Day at a Time bracelets, tissues, and a Today is a Good Day Child Loss Resources card. Today is a Good Day hosts an annual Interfaith Remembrance Service for Pregnancy, Infant, and Child Loss on October 15 – the International Wave of Light. The organization can also connect families with others who have experienced child loss.
Location
1511 Bethlehem Pike
Flourtown, PA 19031
Aubrey’s Advocate is a maternal health non-profit that supports families in the aftermath of a perinatal loss through financial and emotional support. Aubrey’s Advocate can offer financial assistance of up to $1,000 towards labor and delivery hospital bills for families who have given birth to a stillbirth baby 28 weeks+ gestation.
Our “Light After Loss” support group is a private, 8-week closed support group designed for mothers 3-6 months out from their loss, focusing on finding healing through friendship and hope for the future.
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Contact Info
aubreysadvocate@gmail.com
National Organizations
The mission of Postpartum Support International is to promote awareness, prevention and treatment of mental health issues related to childbearing in every country worldwide.
Contact Info
1-800-944-4773
Share is a community for anyone who experiences the tragic death of a baby. We serve parents, grandparents, siblings, and others in the family unit, as well as the professionals who care for grieving families. Share is a national organization with over 75 chapters in 29 states. Our services include bed-side companions, phone support, face-to-face and online support group meetings, resource packets, private online communities, comfort kits, memorial events, training for caregivers, and so much more.
Location
1600 Heritage Landing, Suite 109
St. Peters, MO 63303
Contact Info
(800) 821-6819
Their mission is to increase awareness, support research, promote education, and encourage advocacy and family support regarding pregnancy loss, and infant death.
Location
6400 Flying Cloud Drive, Suite 225
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Contact Info
(952) 715-7731
The TEARS Foundation seeks to compassionately lift a financial burden from families who have lost a child by providing funds to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services. We also offer parents comprehensive bereavement care in the form of grief support groups and peer companions.
Location
11102 Sunrise Blvd E #112,
Puyallup, WA 98374
Contact Info
(253) 200-0944
Book Recommendations
Category: Baby Loss Guide
A Silent Sorrow- Pregnancy Loss: Guidance and Support for You and Your Family
by Ingrid Kohn and Perry-Lynn Moffitt
Guide on how to support self & family; offers emotional and practical support.
Category: Baby Loss Guide
The Baby Loss Guide: Practical and Compassionate Support with a Day-by-Day Resource to Navigate the Path of Grief
by Zoe Clark-Coates
Provides a supportive and practical guide to walk people through their darkest days of suffering and give them hope for the future. The first half of the book answers the many questions those who encounter loss ask themselves and others; the second half of the book offers 60-days of practical and compassionate support.
Category: Baby Loss Guide
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
by Deborah Davis, Ph.D
Covers many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention.
Category: Personal Story- Offering Support
Saying Goodbye
by Zoe Clark-Coates
Category: Miscarriage
The Miscarriage Map: What to Expect When You Are No Longer Expecting
by Sunita Osborn, PsyD.
Informed by her clinical expertise and her own personal experience with miscarriage, the Miscarriage Map offers women, their partners, and loved ones the nitty gritty realities of a miscarriage, the accompanying emotional roller coaster, and specific steps to take to help them get through this loss.
Category: Miscarriage
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
by Alan Wolfelt, PhD.
100 Practical Ideas for Parents & Families
Category: Stillbirth
They Were Still Born
by Janel Atlas
Personal stories about stillbirth
Category: Stillbirth
Three Minus One
by Sean Hanish and Brooke Warner
Stories of parents’ love and loss
Category: Infertility and Loss
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
by Justine Brooks Froelker
A collection of essays filled with struggle, laughter, accountability, faith and a mighty rising. Justine shares her insights as both a mental health therapist with over 16 years of experience and a thriver, not only survivor, of the infertility journey.
Category: Perinatal Palliative Care / Hospice; Continuing a Pregnancy After Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnosis
A Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby’s Life Is Expected to Be Brief
by Amy Kuebelbeck and Deborah Davis
A gentle and practical guide for parents who decide to continue their pregnancy knowing that their baby’s life will be brief.
Category: Interruption of a Much-Wanted Pregnancy
Our Heartbreaking Choices
by Christine Brooks
46 Women share their stories of interrupting a much-wanted pregnancy.
Category: Father’s Grief and Male Perspective of Losing a Baby
He Lost His Baby Too: Survival Guide for the Grieving Dad
by Kelly Farley and David DiCola
In the wake of a tragic loss—whether it be a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or the untimely passing of an infant—this invaluable resource unravels the layers of anguish that overwhelm grieving fathers. Written by a grieving dad, this book offers unflinching honesty and poignant insight, it also delves into the raw pain that accompanies such a profound loss, assuring these men that their emotions, however overwhelming, are both valid and shared by others who have walked a similar path.
Category: Grief- General; author lost baby girl to stillbirth and has made life mission to focus on the grief of parents
Bearing the Unbearable
by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD.
About the heartbreaking path of grief
Category: Relational Dynamics Following a Loss
Holding on to Love After You’ve Lost a Baby
by Gary Chapman and Candy McVicar
In this book, Candy McVicar, a grieving mom who leads a ministry for grieving parents, and Dr. Gary Chapman, relationship expert and author of The 5 Love Languages®, team up to help couples who are facing the unimaginable. They’ll teach you how to:
-Cope with the complex feelings that come with the grief process
-Understand your spouse’s unique grieving needs and support him/her
-Use the five love languages through grief
Category: Child Loss- Support for Fathers
A Heart that Works
by Rob Delaney
(NY Times Best Seller 2022) A father shares about the loss of his 2-year-old son from a brain tumor.
“Profound, painful, full of emotion, and bracingly honest, Delaney’s memoir offers solace to those who have faced devastation and shows us how grace may appear even in the darkest times.”