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

For LGBTQ+

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

From Mothers of Color

For Fertility Struggle

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.