PARISH RESOURCES

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Handouts

• Comforting Those Who Have Lost a Baby During Pregnancy or Shortly Thereafter

Parish Library Recommendations

• Naming the Child: Hope-Filled Reflections on Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death  by Jenny Schroedel
• Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Infant Death  by Dianna Vagianos Armentrout
• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Revised Edition: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah L Davis

• Memory Eternal: Living with Grief as Orthodox Christians by Sarah Byrne-Martelli. A wonderful help in working through any type of grief written from a distinctly Orthodox world view. The book also describes how to offer a grief group that may be beneficial to your parish. 

• Under the Laurel Tree: Grieving Infertility with Saints Joachim and Anna  by Nicole Rocas

• No One Told Me I Could Cry  by Connie Corso Nykie, R.N., B.S.H.A.  (for women who have been wounded by abortion)

• Children of My Heart: Finding Christ through Adoption  by Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp

• Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage through Pregnancy  by Laura Jansson
• A Sacred Beginning: Nuturing Your Body, Mind and Soul during Bay's First Forty Days  by Sarah Brangwynne and Sasha Rose Oxnard

• Raising Them Right  by St. Theophan the Recluse
• Parenting Toward the Kingdom: Orthodox Christian Principles of Child-Rearing  by Dr. Philip Mamalakis
• The Ascetic Lives of Mothers: A Prayer Book for Orthodox Moms   by Annalisa Boyd
• Close to Home: One Orthodox Mother's Quest for Patience, Poeace and Perseverance   by Mollie Sabourin