Support & Links

SOURCES OF SUPPORT:
(Please click on the names of the organisations)

- Sands
020 7436 5881 (Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm, plus Tues & Thurs 6pm-10pm)
- Sands Leaflet: Saying Goodbye to Your Baby
- Sands Leaflet: When a Baby Dies Before Labour Begins
- The Lullaby Trust (previously known as FSID)
0808 802 6858 (Mon-Fri 10am-6pm & 6pm-10pm weekends & bank holidays)
- Samaritans
08457 90 90 90 (24 hour)
- Cruse Bereavement Care
0844 477 9400 (Mon-Fri 9:30am-5pm)
- Child Bereavement Trust
- Towards Tomorrow Together
- Aidan's Elephants - supporting bereaved parents in the UK
- Saying Goodbye
- You could also call your GP during their normal hours
- The Bereaved Employee: Returning to Work
- NHS Scotland's Moodjuice... Bereavement Self Help Guide

SUPPORT FOR DADS:
- Grieving Dads Project
- Little Footprints
- Sands Leaflet: Mainly for Fathers

SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN & TEENAGERS:
- Child Bereavement Trust
- Winston's Wish
- Young Minds
- Grief Encounter Project
- Still Standing: Children & Grief
- Sands Leaflet: Supporting Children When A Baby Has Died
- Saying Goodbye: Children & Grief
- Teen Grief
- Helping a Teenager Deal with Grief
- Ages and Stages of Grief
- Saying Goodbye: Talking to Kids About Death
- Letting Children Share in Grief

Books for children:
- We Were Gonna Have A Baby, But We Had An Angel Instead
- Someone Came Before You
- Dealing with Loss: A Workbook for Kids

BLOGS:

- Silent Love - a mother's blog following her story of recurrent stillbirth due to a rare placental condition
- Marvellous Macho's Year of New Things - a bereaved mum and dad trying new things in memory of their son

- The Stars Apart (formerly Dear Finley) - a mother's letters to her little boy and other aspects of life after loss
- Will Carry On - Erin (and Aaron) blog about their journey through recurrent loss and also provide details of resources to help other bereaved parents

- Stirrup Queen's List of Blogs (aka the Stirrup Queen's Completely Anal List of Blogs That Proves That She Really Missed Her Calling as a Personal Organizer) - hosts lists of blogs relating to loss, fertility etc
- Life After Leela - a mum writes about her life after losing her little girl
- Lost and Found - an area to make connections with other loss blogs

- Facets of Life - Lori writes about life after loss, some very thought-provoking and apt posts here

 WEBSITES:

- Gabriel's Garden - a beautiful site where a mum photographs flowers in memory of lost children
- The Sacred Seashore - a place to honour the memories of children and babies gone too soon
- Alexandra's Angel Gifts - an excellent site for baby memorial cards, gifts etc
- Christian's Beach - CarlyMarie writes names in the sand of children gone too soon in memory of her son Christian
- Angel Names in the Sand - Felicia writes names in the sand in Kauai, Hawaii in memory of her boys Joseph and Jacob.
- Centre for Loss and Trauma - Dr Joanne Cacciatore's site and blog with resources and help for dealing with loss

- MISS Foundation - a community of compassion and hope for families who have lost a child at any age
- CarlyMarie Project Heal - a beautiful site for support
- Tiny Wings - a mummy writes names on pebbles and in the sand for other bereaved families, in memory of her daughter Isabella

- Saying Goodbye - organising nationwide (UK) remembrance services for pregnancy and infant loss

- Cheeky Chums (tiny clothes) - making clothes for babies lost at all stages in pregnancy
- How I Came to Hold You - the website and blog for a new SANDS book looking at the stories of 17 families who have gone on to have a child after a loss

Please feel free to let us know any organisations, blogs or websites you have found helpful- we would be glad to add them here. You can comment below or email us at lossthroughthelookingglass@gmail.com