Recommended Reading

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Books I Have Read and Recommend

Tear Soup 

by Pat Schweibert, Chuck Deklyen & Taylor Bills

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby

by Deborah Davis

I Will Carry You

by Angie Smith

The Angel with the Golden Glow

by Elissa Al-Chokhachy

A Guide for Fathers: When a Baby Dies

by Tim Nelson

Dear Cheyenne: A Journey into Grief, A Collection of Angels & Miracles, A Celebration of Motherhood

by Joanne Cacciatore

Running With Angels:  The Inspiring Story of a Woman Who Turned Personal Tragedy into Triumph Over Obesity

by Pamela Hansen

SIDS & Infant Death Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends & Professionals Who Seek to Help Them

by Joani Nelson Horchler

Life Touches Life: A Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing

by Lorraine Ash

List of books about Child/Infant Loss

( I have not personally read these books)

An Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death by Christine O'Keefe Lafser. Loyola Press, 1998.

Dancing on the Moon by Janice Roper. SIDS Educational Services, 2001. (Children)

A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies by Anne McCracken and Mary Semel. Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 2000.

Finding Hope When a Child Dies: What Other Cultures Can Teach Us by Sukie Miller, PhD. Fireside Books, 1999.

Noah's Rainbow: A Father's Emotional Journey from the Death of His Son to the Birth of His Daughter

Still to Be Born by Pat Schwiebert. Perinatal Loss, 1986.

Tender Fingerprints by Brad Stetson. Zondervan Publishing Company, 2002.

Waiting With Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life by Amy Kuebelbeck. Loyola Press, 2003.

We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead by Pat Schwiebert. Grief Watch, 2003. (Children)

When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death by Nancy Kohner. Routledge, 2001.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner. Anchor, 2004.

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth McCracken, 2008.

When Hello Means Goodbye by Paul Kirk. Perinatal Loss, 1985.

For Bereaved Grandparents by Margaret H. Gerner. Centering Corporation, 1990.

The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child by Suzanne Redfern, 2008.

Beyond Tears:  Living After Losing a Child, Revised Edition by Ellen Mitchell, Rita Volpe, Ariella Long, Phyllis Levine et. al.