- Tips for how to tell your other children
- Know what your other children’s concept of death is, by age
- The New Song Center offers grief support specifically to siblings and other children
- Here is an outside link with additional information for children
- Special farewell words and music (from our site)
- Helpful perspectives and scriptures for the different aspects of pregnancy loss ( outside link – scroll to the bottom and click the link you’d like to read more about)
- Comfort Zone is a free childrens camp that explores grief
- When Teachers Face Grief in the Classroom – Dr. Silverman (outside article)
- The Impact of Miscarriage on Our Daughters is an outside article
- Our international Long Term Support section has crisis hotlines, books and more (and our local long term support section has resources in your own community)
Books for Children
- A Letter from Heaven – Steve Butler
- We Do Remember You – Steve Butler
- Raising Grieving Children – Dr. Silverman (Psychology Today – blog)
- Our Baby Died – Dr. Jane Worland
- My Baby Big Sister – Cathy Blanford
- Something Happened – Cathy Blanford
- I Miss You: A First Look at Death – Pat Thomas
- We Were Gonna Have a Baby, but We Had an Angel Instead – Pat Schwiebert
- Someone Came Before You – Pat Schwiebert
- Isabelle’s Dream: A Story and Activity Book – Betsy Arenella
- Gentle Willow – Joyce C. Mills
- Granddad’s Prayers for the Earth – Douglas Wood
- The Dragonfly Door – John Adams
- Helping Children Grieve – Theresia Huntley
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Wonderful, Heidi. Thank you for this. My son is 5 and he has been very interested lately in the two little ones I lost before his birth. Think I’ll check out that book!