Bereavement Resources
As a doula, I am here for all of this experience: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the difficult, the best and the worst.
If your family experiences the unsettling and heartbreaking reality of perinatal loss, know that I will be at your side through it all.
Birth is birth, and even in the most tragic of circumstances, I am here for you as your doula.
If you are experiencing or have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss and are looking for bereavement support, please reach out.
In addition, I recommend the resources below for help throughout your grieving. You are not alone and this is not your fault.
Resources for Loss
Local
The Compassionate Friends - local chapters of a national organization meet in-person as follows:
Pueblo-Ark Valley: second Monday of each month at 7pm MT
Pikes Peak: third Thursday of every month at 7pm MT
JeffCo/Littleton: second Monday of each month at 7pm MT
Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support - local chapters of a national organization meet in-person as follows:
Colorado Springs: second Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm MT
Denver: second Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm MT
Loss Support meetings through Colorado Pregnancy Loss: second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:30pm MT in Denver
Community Support
Online
Bereaved Parents Community Group with Abby the Sociologist Doula: meets on Zoom on the second Monday each month at 6pm MT
Pregnancy and Infant Loss with The Compassionate Friends: meets online every Sunday at 6pm MT
Various support groups for perinatal loss with Star Legacy Foundation: meets online at multiple times and days
Community Support
LGBTQIA+ Losses - Return to Zero: various resources for both members of a loss within an LGBTQIA+ relationship
Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service after Perinatal Loss - Share: tips on how to honor your baby (and how to get through the process)
The Miscarriage Doula: offers groups and 1:1 counseling and support for all types of miscarriage
Additional Resources
Books
A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss: Compassionate Answers to Difficult Questions, by Dr. Abby Jorgensen
Empty Arms: Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death, by Sherokee Ilse
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby, by Dr. Deborah Davis
Holding Space — On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go, by Amy Wright Glenn
Ghostbelly, by Elizabeth Heineman
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, A Movement, by Jessica Zucker
Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, by Dr. Lora Shahine
Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death, by Dianna Vagianos Armentrout
What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color, an anthology edited by Shannon Gibney and Kao Kaila Yang
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Rabbi Harold Kushner
Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss, by Rachel Lewis
A perinatal loss may also affect living children in your family. Here you will find a carefully curated database of children’s books that tackle grief and loss. This database, managed by Dr. Abby Jorgenson of Haven Bereavement Doulas, includes reviews, ratings, and a description of the content.
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