Processing grief can be a significant challenge for those directly experiencing loss and those around them. No single book can offer a simple answer, so we reached out to our followers and the families we have supported. Below are the books for bereaved parents and children that many of them have found helpful.
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Books for bereaved parents after miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a baby or child
Speaking the Unspeakable
Find this bookLittle Life Big Loss
Find this bookLetters of Love – Written for Pregnancy & Infant Loss
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Find this bookStill A Mum
Find this bookThe Birthdays Without You Journal
Find this bookHard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence or miscarriage
Find this bookThe Baby Loss Guide
You are the Mother of all Mothers
A Grief Observed
Coping with Grief
They Were Still Born – Personal Stories about Stillbirth
Women Who Run With The Wolves
Heart Space
All I Know – A memoir of love, loss and life
Fallen Angel
Layla’s Story – A memoir of sex, love, loss and longing
Changed – Living with Stillbirth
The rules do not apply
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Inside Out
Invisible Earthquake – A woman’s journal through Stillbirth
I AM I AM I AM – Seventeen Brushes with Death
Still at Birth
The Chronology of Water
Mackenzie’s Mission – How one family turned tragedy into hope and love
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Any Ordinary Day
Your Own Kind of Girl
to linger on hot coals – collected poetic works from grieving women writers
Always a part of me – Surviving Childbearing loss
Three Minus One – Stories of Parents Love and Loss
Surviving my first year of Childloss – Personal stories from Grieving Parents
A Silent Love
Beyond Tears
Miracle Beginnings
Pregnancy Loss
Worse Things Happen at Sea
The Reality Slap
Bearing the unbearable: love, loss, and the heartbreaking path of grief
The unspeakable loss: how do you live after a child dies?
The Year of Magical Thinking
Young Widow’s Guide to Home Improvement
Getting Back to Life When Grief Won’t Heal
How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
Beyond Words: Grieving when your child has died
Forever Loved: A Guidebook for Widows and Widowers
A Widow’s Story
Nothing was the Same
No Time for Goodbyes
My Mother, My Father – On Losing a Parent
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
The Heart of Grief
Grief and Remembering
Coping with Grief
The Grief of our Children
Now that the Funeral is Over: Understanding the Effects of our Grief
Healing Grief – A Guide to Loss and Recovery
A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children
The Grieving Teen
Never the Same
The Orphaned Adult: Understanding And Coping With Grief and Change After The Death Of Our Parents
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals
Talking About Death
Good Mourning
Signs
Finding Meaning
Life is Tough – But so are you
Books for children grieving a sibling
My Brother, Born Sleeping
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Find this bookBorn to Fly
The Grief Wave
Shelter for Sadness
Waiting for Wolf
Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in between
Something Happened
We were gonna have a baby, but we had an angel instead
Poems for families who have experienced loss
The other one
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Red Nose is committed to supporting families navigating the complexities of the loss of a baby or child. To access our specialised bereavement support, including counselling, peer support programs, support groups and resources tailored to individual needs, visit Find Support.
