SUPPORT & Resources FOR RECOVERY
A list of organizations supporting moms and families after loss.
COUNSELING & SUPPORT
Online & In-Person Support
♥ Rachel's Gift Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Groups
Click here for current schedule of our in-person and online groups
♥ A Heartbreaking Choice
aheartbreakingchoice.com
Offers support for women who have made the heartbreaking choice to terminate a much wanted pregnancy.
♥ CLIMB (Center for Loss in Multiple Birth)
climb-support.org
Support for those who have experienced the loss of one/both twins or more multiples at any time from conception through birth, infancy, and childhood.
♥ First Candle
firstcandle.org
Provides a 24 Hour grief line and peer-to-peer online support groups for miscarriage, stillbirth, and sudden infant death.
♥ MEND (Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death)
mend.org
Offers online and in-person support groups across the US.
♥ National Share
nationalshare.org
(English and Español) A community for anyone who experiences the tragic death of a baby. Serving 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. Services include bed-side companions, phone support, face-to-face support group meetings, resource packets, private online communities, memorial events, and more.
♥ PALS (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
pregnancyafterlosssupport.org
As a mom pregnant after a loss you don’t quite fit into the loss groups anymore, but you also don’t feel like you fit in the “normal” pregnancy community. PALS helps fill that gap with online support groups and in-person Meet-Ups to support you through trying to conceive, pregnancy, and parenting after loss.
♥ Still Birth Day
stillbirthday.com
Support for birth in every trimester.
♥ Still Mothers
stillmothers.com
Raises awareness surrounding the issues of babyloss, secondary infertility, and the choice to remain childless after loss. Offers a space where mothers can connect, process grief, and find healing without the additional stress and heartache of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood after loss conversations.
♥ Still Standing Magazine
stillstandingmag.com
For all who are grieving child loss and infertility.
♥ The Compassionate Friends
compassionatefriends.org
Offers support via local state chapters, online support communities, and private facebook groups.
MAILING LIST REMOVAL
General Baby Product Mailing Lists
♥ National Do Not Mail List
directmail.com
A letter to the addresses below will stop about 75% of baby-related mail during the first year after a baby's death. The Mail Preference Service division of the Direct Marketing Association (known as DMA) compiles a list of people who do not want junk mail. DMA provides their compiled 'Do Not Mail' list to any company that requests it.
Tips: Write to Mail Preference Service and request your name and address be deleted from all mailing and marketing lists. Provide them with three spellings or variations of your name, as well as with any other names at your address (including previous occupants). They will retain your information for five years. If you wish, at that time you should write again. Be sure to write when you move. Include your name and address. Be sure to sign and date your letter.
Mail Preference Service
c/o Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
| Sample Letter - MPS Farmingdale.pdf |
Mail Preference Service
c/o Direct Marketing Association
6 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017-4609
| Sample Letter - MPS New York.pdf |
Gerber Baby Products
Gerber Parents Resource Center
445 State Street
Fremont, MI 49413-0001
| Sample Letter - Gerber.pdf |
MEMORIAL ITEMS
♥ Jewelry Keepsakes
jewelrykeepsakes.com
Cremation jewelry keepsakes and pendants
♥ Laurelbox
laurelbox.com
Gifts for grieving mothers
♥ Metal Stamped Memories
metalstampedmemories.com
Jewelry and keepsakes to remember loss and to celebrate life; made by Michaela in memory of Carter.
♥ Molly Bears
mollybears.org
Personalized weighted teddy bears for families coping with infant loss. Help to alleviate Empty Arms Syndrome. Orders are accepted online on the 30th of each month.
♥ Nelle & Lizzy
nelleandlizzy.com
Personalized memorial jewelry.
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