Birth Ease
Baby Loss Support
Perinatal Loss Resources
Finding a place where you can speak freely about your loss, where you can be heard and understood, is invaluable. This place might be in a support group, among sympathetic friends and family members, or in the presence of a counselor or spiritual leader. Online websites and blogs can be a reassuring way to discover that you are not alone in your feelings and grief. These are websites and resources you may find helpful. Some of these listings are geared towards Central Florida; however, with the exception of the local support groups and Katherine's Law, there are national chapters or online resources available. Resources for grieving children are included in this list.
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Birth Ease Loss Support Services
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Bereavement Doula
Grief Support
Meditations for Grief
Pregnancy after Loss
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Birth Ease Loss Support on Facebook
Still birthday
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is an extensive online resource that supports all aspects of pregnancy and infant loss. It provides families facing a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss information, birth plan examples, and contact information for birth & bereavement doulas.
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
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Provides the gift of remembrance photography for parents suffering the loss of a baby. This non-profit organization helps parents/family can locate a professional quality photographer in your area to provide beautiful portraits for families facing or going through the passing of a baby.
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The Finley Project®
offers compassionate support to mothers grieving infant loss, providing empathy, understanding, and tangible assistance to help them find comfort and strength through their healing journey.
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The HEAL Group—Orlando, FL
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“Helping Endure InfAnt Loss” is a structured support group of Florida Hospital for parents who have suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death. Some of the topics include: discussion of the uniqueness of this loss, differences in how others grieve this loss, differences in how moms and dads grieve, how self-esteem is damaged, facing subsequent pregnancy after a loss, and facing medical issues. The group was designed and is facilitated by a clinical psychotherapist after personally experiencing a full-term stillbirth. The group is held four times a year and requires advance registration.
For more information about the group, or to register, contact: Gary Vogel. LMHC at gvogellmhc@aol.com, or (407) 260-9222.
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Angel Gowns Florida
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was created to make soft, sweet, and very special clothes often made from donated gowns for newborns who pass away in the hospital. These gowns can be worn for family visitation, photographs, or burial.
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The Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.
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is a non-profit organization engaging a global community of bereaved parents and their health providers to improve mental health outcomes, while also advancing pregnancy and infant loss awareness, education, and support. Return to Zero: HOPE developed organically as a result of the film's positive impact. It is a community of bereaved families and their health providers who are transforming the culture of pregnancy and infant loss through awareness, education, and support.
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Perinatal Hospice & Palliative Care
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is a resource for parents whose baby has a prenatal diagnosis that indicates their baby likely will die before or after birth; and they are considering continuing their pregnancy and embracing whatever time they may be able to have with their baby, even if that time is only before birth, while their baby is cradled safely inside of mom. This site provides links for perinatal hospice & palliative care programs and other resources. You are not alone. Parents who have traveled this path before you have found that it can be a beautiful, profoundly meaningful, and healing journey.
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Sisters in Loss
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is dedicated to replacing silence with storytelling around pregnancy and infant loss and infertility of black women. The stigma and shame that come with sharing loss stories prevent black women from achieving the healing they need to thrive in their new normal. Sisters in Loss holds space to present loss and infertility stories in a resourceful, culturally acceptable way to assure black women they are not alone on this journey.
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Still Mothers
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is an online resource focused on the behalf of all the mothers who feel lost and left behind in a community of families, because their only child or children have died.
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Katherine's Law
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A stillbirth often occurs around the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy; and parents have usually completed their baby’s room, bought baby clothes, and chosen a name. They have bonded with their baby, and have tragically lost their child. Stillbirth parents are typically shocked to discover that after giving birth to their child, they are only issued a death certificate. This can feel like one more person/entity that does not honor the life of their child, no matter how short. In 2006, Florida’s governor signed into law legislation that allows for the creation and issuance of a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth. This law, section 382.0085, Florida Statutes, is known as Katherine's Law.
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The TEARS Foundation
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is a local non-profit organization that will assist bereaved parents with the financial expenses they face in making final arrangements for their baby. It offers free support groups for bereaved families who have experienced the death of their baby. 386-490-2234
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The Angel of Hope
of Central Florida is a grassroots mission taken on by a dedicated group of individuals who see a need to have our children’s lives remembered and to promote healing for anyone who has been touched by the death of a child. We are health care professionals, moms and dads, and members of the community who have experienced and understand the struggle of losing a child. We have come together to erect a statue, The Christmas Box Angel of Hope, in the Central Florida area. The Angel of Hope statue will represent all children who have died. Central Florida’s Angel of Hope is located in Sunshine Park in Altamonte Springs and provides a peaceful environment for remembering, grieving, hope, and healing. There is an annual Forever in Our Hearts Candlelight Ceremony on the National Day of Remembrance for Pregnancy & Infant Loss on October 15th at 7 pm.
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RESOLVE
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The National Infertility Association, established in 1974, is dedicated to ensuring that all people challenged in their family-building journey reach resolution through being empowered by knowledge, supported by community, united by advocacy, and inspired to act.
RESOLVE exists to provide:
◊ Access to Care
◊ Advocacy for Coverage
◊ Access to Support & Community
◊ Access to Education
◊ Awareness of All Family Building Options
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4 Kira 4 Moms
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4Kira4Moms was founded with the mission to advocate for improved maternal health policies and regulations, to educate the public about the impact of maternal mortality in communities, provide peer support to the victim’s family, friends, and promote the idea that maternal mortality should be viewed,and discussed as a human rights issue.
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Charles Johnson, founder and 4kira4moms worked relentlessly with congress to pass the preventing maternal death act( H.R.1318). This milestone legislation is the first ever to combat the maternal death crisis in the United States. The bill was signed into law December 21, 2018 and dedicated to TGIF memory of Kira Dixon Johnson. Our work has just begun. Our mothers, sisters, daughter, wives need your help. Join the fight!
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Pregnancy & Infant Loss Month
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In October 1988, President Ronald Reagan Proclaimed October as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
“When a Child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are a widow or a widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost their children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.” October 15 is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day.
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Arnold Palmer Hospital—
Patient Care
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Patients and their families can get the support they need from our counselors who have experience in working with both adults and children.
For more information, please call us Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, at (321) 841-8053.
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New Hope for Kids
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is a Grief Support Program that provides a safe and supportive environment where children grieving the death of a loved one can share their experience with others facing the same feelings of loss. 407-331-3059
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Dougy Center
​creates safe spaces and free resources for children and families who are grieving. Our pioneering peer grief support model, professional training, and world-renowned programs and advocacy bring hope and healing around the world.
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Good Grief Parenting
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Good Grief Parenting provides the guidance, assurance, skills, and tools you need to support your grieving child and yourself as you heal. With hope and confidence, you can live forward toward a future bright with possibilities and even joy.
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The Compassionate Friends
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their mission is: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
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IRIS: Infants Remembered In Silence
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was founded in 1987 with the specific goal of assisting parents who experience the death of a child. IRIS is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to offering support, education and resources to parents, families, friends and professionals on the death of a child in early pregnancy (miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, etc) or from stillbirth, premature birth, neo-natal death, birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), illness, accidents, and all other types of infant & early childhood death.
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