Books for Those in Need of Support
Recommended Books specific to Pregnancy and Infant Loss
- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah L. Davis (highly recommended)
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore
- Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief by Kate Inglis (highly recommended)
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth Cracken
- From Father to Father: Letters from Loss Dad to Loss Dad by Emily R. Long
- You are Not Alone: Love Letters From Loss Mom to Loss Mom by Emily R. Long
- Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back by Kelly Farley
- Grieving the Child I Never Knew: A Devotional for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn or Newly Born Child by Kathe Wunnenberg
- Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple by Nathalie Himmelrich
- Surviving my First Year of Child Loss: Personal Stories from Grieving Parents by Nathalie Himmelrich
- Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families by Alan D. Wolfelt (also available for Miscarriage)
- Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender by Lindsay Gibson
- Finding Hope When a Child Dies: What Other Cultures Can Teach Us by Sukie Miller
- To Linger on Hot Coals by Stephanie Paige Cole and Catherine Bayly (poetry)
- Life Touches Life: A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth and Healing by Lorraine Ash
- Through, Not Around: Stories of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss by A. McDonald Ace, A. Ng Bourbonnais, and C. Starr
- The Mourning Sister: A Journey of Grief and Joy by Josefina Herrera Sanders
Recommended Grief Books
- It’s OK that You’re Not OK by Megan Devine (highly recommended)
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Timesby Pema Chodron