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We have compiled an extensive list of loss and grief support resources.

First Candle SIDS Alliance
http://www.firstcandle.org/

Compassionate Friends
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/

Grief and Loss Forum
http://www.childbirth.org/bbs.html

Hannah's Prayer
Christian infertility and pregnancy loss group.
http://www.hannah.org/

A Heart Breaking Choice
With the increased use of prenatal testing, more and more families are faced with the devastating news that something is seriously or fatally wrong with their unborn baby. This site is for those parents who choose to interrupt their pregnancies after poor prenatal diagnosis.

Babyloss
The Babyloss website provides information and support online for anyone affected by the death of a baby during pregnancy, at birth, or shortly afterwards. http://www.babyloss.com//

Little Footprints
Little Footprints is dedicated to provide continuous support, information, and friendship to parents who have experienced a loss through miscarriage, still birth, or neonatal death.
www.littlefootprints.org

Hygeia(tm) . . . An Online Journal for Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss
Support, info and links. Individual stories. Put together by Michael R. Berman, M.D.
http://hygeia.org/

The MISS Foundation
http://www.misschildren.org/
The M.I.S.S. Foundation is an international organization providing immediate and ongoing support to grieving families,helping them to empower themselves by proactive community involvement and volunteerism, and reducing infant and toddler death hrough research and education.

My Forever Child
http://www.myforeverchild.com
Artisan handcrafted and personalized jewelry and keepsakes to comfort those touched by the loss of an infant or child.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
The Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation (NILMDTS) administers a network of nearly 3,000 volunteer professional photographers in the United States and eight International countries. At a family's request, a NILMDTS Affiliated Photographer will come to your hospital or hospice location and conduct a sensitive and private portrait session.

Pain Heartache, and Hope
True stories of men and women coping with miscarriage, infertility, stillbirth, and losing a child after birth. It consists of over 70 detailed personal stories.
http://www.pain-heartache-hope.com/

A Place To Remember
A place of information, support and remembrance for those who are grieving a loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. http://www.aplacetoremember.com/

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Mailing List
In order to belong to the mailing list or to search its archives, send e-mail to majordomo@taex001.tamu.edu

• Leave the subject line blank
• In the body of the message type: subscribe infanlos
• On the second line type: info infanlos
• On the third line type: end

Resolve Through Sharing
Pregnancy and infant loss support and information. 1910 South Avenue, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 or call (800) 362-9567.

SANDS - Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support (Vic)
A support group for parents who experience miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
http://www.sands.org.au//

Share
offers support for parents experiencing pregnancy and infant loss.
800-821-6819
636-947-6164
Email Share

SIDS Network
http://www.sids-network.org/
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death (SIDS/OID)Information Web Site

SPALS (Subsequent Pregnancy After Loss Support)
SPALS is an email-based discussion group providing self-help support for subsequent pregnancy after a loss.

Twin/Multiple Loss

Center for Loss in Multiple Birth, Inc (CLIMB)
P.O. Box 91377
Anchorage AK 99509
Phone: (907) 222-5321
www.climb-support.org
Email: climb@pobox.alaska.net

Bereavement in Multiple Birth
An excellent article on loss of one or more multiples in a pregnancy.

L.I.M.B.O. (Loss In Multiple Birth Outreach)
Formerly known as Lost Angels. To subscribe, send a message to listguru@fatcity.com. Skip the subject line. In the body of the message type: sub limbo-L

Twins Loss Support/Bereavement Support
Mail lists, web sites, newsgroups, etc.

LAMBS (Loss of All in Multiple Birth Support)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cjenks/lambs.html
...an e-mail support group of parents who have experienced the death of both twins or all their higher order multiples.

POMS Parents Of Multiples Forever
http://www.erichad.com/pom/index.html
For Parents of Multiples Who Have Experienced the Death of a Twin or Some of Their Multiple Birth Babies/Children

Twinless Twins International
P.O. Box 980481
Ypsilanti, MI 48198-0481
(888) 205-8962
Email contact@twinlesstwins.org

Vanishing Twin Syndrome
Vanishing Twin Syndrome is a site that provides information on pregnancy loss at an early gestation