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Bibliography

This is a list of books suggested by bereaved parents. Some of the books you can find at your local bookstore in the self-help section, but many need to be ordered from specialty centers such as:

Miscarriage

• Allen, M. and Marks, S., Miscarriage - Women Sharing from the Heart
• Centering Corporation, "Miscarriage"
• Centering Corporation, "Miscarriage: A Man’s Book"
• Ilse, S. and Burns, L., Miscarriage: A Shattered Dream
• Kotzwinkle, William, Swimmer in the Secret Sea
• Pizner, H. and Palinski, C.O., Coping with a Miscarriage
• Semchyshyn, S. and Colman, C., How to Prevent Miscarriage and Other Crises in Pregnancy

General Perinatal Loss

• Borg, S. and Lasker, J., When Pregnancy Fails: Families Coping With Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
• Centering Corporation, "Grieving Grandparents"
• Clayton, J., Women in Mourning
• Davis, D., Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
• Donnelly, K., Recovering from the Loss of a Child
• Friedman, R. and Gradstein, B., Surviving Pregnancy Loss
• Ilse, S. and Burns, L., Empty Arms
• Ilse, S., Single Parent Grief
• Kohn, I. and Moffitt, P-L., A Silent Sorrow : Pregnancy Loss - Guidance and Support for Your Family
• Lammert, C. and Friedreck, S., Angelic Presence: Short Stories of Solace and Hope After the Loss of a Baby
• Lothrop, H., Help, Comfort & Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or the First Year
• Panuthos, C. and Romeo, C., Ended Beginnings
• Peppers, L.G. and Knapp, R.J., How to go on Living After the Death of a Baby
• Peppers, L.G. and Knapp, R.J., Motherhood Mourning: Perinatal Loss
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Center , An Ambitious Sort of Grief: Diary of Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss
• Rando, T., Parental Loss of a Child
• Rosof, B., The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From the Death of a Child
• SHARE, "Whispers from the Heart"
• Wheeler, S., When A Baby Dies

General Grief Literature

• Fumia, M., Safe Passage
• Hickman, M., Healing After Loss
• Kubler-Ross, E., On Death and Dying
• Kushner, H., When Bad Things Happen to Good People
• Medic, "Healing A Father’s Grief"
• --, Men and Grief
• Rando, T., How to go on Living When Someone You Love Dies
• Sims, D., If I Could Just See Hope
• Sims, D., Footsteps Through the Valley
• Sims, D. Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna?
• Westberg, G., Good Grief

Children’s Grief Literature

• Buscaglia, L., The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
• Centering Corporation, "Sibling Grief"
• Centering Corporation, "I Know I Made it Happen"
• Centering Corporation, "No New Baby"
• Dodge, N. Thumpy’s Story
• Goldman, L., Life & Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children
• Grollman, E., Explaining Death to Children
• Grollman, E., Talking About Death - A Dialogue Between Parent and Child
• Kubler-Ross, E., On Children and Death
• O’Toole, D., Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Center, "Where’s Jess?"
• Schafer, D. and Lyons, G. Our Baby Died - Why?

Pregnancy Termination

• Centering Corporation, Beyond Prenatal Choice
• Centering Corporation, Difficult Decisions
• Hodge, S., An Abortion for Love: Notes From a Friend
• Ilse, S., Precious Lives, Painful Choices
• Minnick, M., A Time to Decide, A Time to Heal

Subsequent Pregnancy

• Ilse, S., "Another Baby? Maybe..."
• Perinatal Loss, Still to be Born

General Helpful Reading

• Any of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books

• Life’s Little Instructions books
• Fulghum, Robert, From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives or any other book that he has written.