Crisis Lines, Books & Support Websites:

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~Phone Support & Crisis Hotlines

• First Candle offers 24/7 phone support in English and Spanish: 800.221.7437 lori@firstcandle.org
• COPEline offers phone support (leave a message if it’s after hours and a volunteer will call you back): 516.364.COPE (2673)
• National Council of Jewish Women free phone support (212) 687-5030 ext. 28 or at plsp@ncjwny.org
• US National Suicide Prevention Hotline offers 24/7 confidential support: 800.273.TALK
• Grassroots Crisis Hotline: 410.531.6677
• SIDS Hotline (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome):  800.232.SIDS (7437)
• Focus on the Family Christian counseling hotline and resources
• Canada Crisis Line: 888.322.3019
• Canada Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877.435.7170
• Finley’s Footprints offers Hope Coaching from the UK
• Samaritans.org offers Suicide Prevention support in UK/Ireland
• Befrienders offers crisis support and suicide prevention by country
• Germany has a Suicide Prevention program (and here’s another one)
• Australia offers a LifeLine
• Suicide prevention in Belgium
• Brazil offers suicide prevention support
• Crisis hotline support in Denmark
• Finland offers crisis support
• Suicide prevention in Hong Kong
• Israel has crisis support
• Suicide prevention in Netherlands
• Norway suicide prevention
• Crisis support in South Korea
• Taiwan suicide prevention

There are also valuable postpartum mood disorder resources, including hotlines and websites, when you navigate here.

~Books

For Mothers

• The Invisible Pregnancy – Heidi Faith
• I Miss His Everything – Dawn Gilner
• All That is Seen and Unseen – Elizabeth Petrucelli
• Asleep in Heaven’s Nursery – Tommy Mann
• What Was Lost – Elise Erikson Barrett
• Grieving the Child I Never Knew – Kathe Wunnenburg
• Empty Arms – Sherokee Isle
• In Faithfulness, He Afflicted Me – Lynnette Kraft
• Still: Artwork and Writings – Stephanie Paige Cole
• Your Baby is Safe – Melissa Yuan-Innes MD
• Naming the Child – Jenny Schroedel
• When Hello Means Goodbye – Kirk & Schwiebert
• Beautiful Pain – Mary Welch
• Tear Soup – Schweibert, DeKlyen & Bills
• Sopa de Lagrimas (Tear Soup in Spanish)

For Couples

• Couple Communication After a Baby Dies – Ilse & Nelson
• Heaven is For Real – Todd Burpo
• Parenthood Lost – Michael Burma MD
• A Bereaved Father – Steve Younis (mens grief)
• A Guide for Fathers – Tim Nelson (mens grief)
• Swallowed by a Snake – Thomas R. Golden (mens grief)
• Butterbean – Brandon Roberts PhD (mens grief)
• A Man You Know is Grieving – Thomas R. Golden (mens grief)

Strengthening Marriage/Relationship

• The Invisible Pregnancy
• The Love Dare
• The Husband Project
• The Respect Dare

For LGBTQ+

• And Tango Makes Three (fertility struggle)
• Pregnancy for Lesbians
• Lesbian Miscarriage
• Untold Stories

From Mothers of Color

• Welcoming Spirit Home
• A Mother’s Heart
• Two Consecutive Miscarriages
• From Crisis to Purpose
• Building a Family Breaks My Heart

For Fertility Struggle

• Building a Family Breaks My Heart
• Remembering Our Angels – Hannah Stone
• Sarah’s Laughter – books on infertility
• Navigating Land of If – Melissa Ford (on infertility)

For The Disabled Mother

• Disabled Woman’s Guide Pregnancy

For Grandparents

• For Bereaved Grandparents – Margaret Gerner (grandparent grief)
• When a Grandchild Dies: What to Do, What to Say, How to Cope – Nadine Galinsky (grandparent’s grief)
• Grandma’s Tears – June Kolf (grandparent grief)

For Carrying to Term

• I Will Carry You – Angie Smith
• Grief Unseen – book on cultivating art therapy through grief
• Carrying On  (workbook) – Darlene Viggiano
• Still to be Born – Pat Schwiebert

For Not Carrying to Term

• Living in Color

For Selective Reduction

• Embracing Laura

For Subsequent Pregnancy

• Motherhood after Miscarriage – Dr. Kathleen Diamond

For Children/Siblings

• books for children gives a complete listing as well as additional support specifically for children through loss and grief

Teen Parents & Loss

• Emma Finds Her Way
• Creating a Life – Corbin Lewars (on rape and loss)

Rape & Loss

• Emma Finds Her Way
• Creating a Life – Corbin Lewars (on rape and loss)

Perspectives for Providers

• The Midwife and the Bereaved Family – Jane Warland
• The Invisible Pregnancy – Heidi Faith  (helpful for doulas to parallel pregnancy & birth to grief & healing)
• Reading List for SBD Doulas includes several more valuable titles
• Footprints on my Heart – Molly Remer

For More Titles & Reading by Subject:
Please visit our Support by Type of Loss page, which will lead you through our supportive explanations, networking resources and often includes additional subject-specific titles.  You can also visit our Library of Personal Stories and share your own with us.  If you’d like to be sure to see a book title listed right here on this page, simply use the box below to tell us about it.

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~Bereavement Diversity Books

• Bereavement Diversity Books & Other Keepsakes

More Reading, Researching & Understanding Grief

• Resources for Fathers 
• Creativity through Grief
• Research on Grief
• Religious & cultural perspectives & resources

Newsletters

• M.E.N.D. (Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death)
• U.T.P.A.I.L. (United through Pregnancy and Infant Loss)
• Still Standing online magazine

Online Groups and Websites

• online resources