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Pregnancy Loss: Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregancy, Stillbirth

 

Orthodox Pregnancy Loss Prayers  - CLICK HERE

 

What to know when you are experiencing a miscarriage or stillbirth

Prayers during a miscarriage

The Actual Process

9 Items to Have When Preparing for a Miscarriage at Home

Navigating the Hospital

Burying baby after a miscarriage and other practical questions

Burial Supplies  - products available for order to families via shipping and includes miscarriage kits, caskets, and more. 

Support Hotline/Birth Plan FAQ | Heaven's Gain Ministries - a hotline for moms who have found out their baby has died to help make a birth plan for delivery. Help is also available for moms who just delivered within the past day to find ways to make arrangements for burial.  

Orthodox Pregnancy Loss Prayers

13 Things You Should Know About Grief After Miscarriage or Baby Loss

Postpartum Depression After Miscarriage

 

Orthodox resources and web articles

Lost InnocentsPractical help for miscarriage from an Orthodox Christian perspective 

The Sanctified Womb: An Orthodox Christian space that walks with you through fertility, pregancy, postpatum, miscarriage, and family life

Facebook Group: Pregnancy, Infant Loss, Orthodoxy

October: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month by Matushka Dennise Kraus

Sharing The Loss Of The Wished For Child by Fr John Shimchik

My miscarriage: wonder and grief intertwined by Loiusa Rogers

Suffering in Silence: Opening up about Miscarriages by Matushka Rebekah Markewich

Grieving a Child: A Conversation with author and Hospice Chaplain Mat. Jenny Schroedel

Podcast: Close to Home: Naming the Child - Molly Sab ourin is prompted to write a letter to the baby she miscarried 9 years ago after reading the newly released book by Matushka Jenny Schroedel entitled "Naming the Child."

Podcast: All These Things:Talking about Miscarriage - Hannah and her friend Lindsey Birdsall talk about their personal experiences with miscarriage, things that were helpful or not helpful to them, as well as resources and advice for those experiencing miscarriage and those who love them.

Podcast: Matushka Anna Crawford on Miscarriage

Podcast: Oneness in Marriage: The Impact of Infertility and Miscarraige on the Marriage

Podcast: Spotlight on Orthodox Families: Lucy and Chase Cantley - Lucy and Chase talk about how they are coping with the last year struggling with a miscarriage, fertility tests and challenges, dealing with insensitive comments about family life, how they deal with the unknown in regards to their family future, and how one specific line from the Cherubic Hymn gives them hope for whatever their future may hold, all between juggling Lucy's band, her day job, and Chase's naval position.

 

Other web resources

stillbirthday: a pregnancy loss is still a birthday

National Share: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support

Still Standing Magazine - for all who are grieving child loss and infertility

 

Books

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

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

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.