Support & guidance Films, books and resources Books and resources When a baby dies A Gift for the Bereaved Parent Zamir Hussain The loss of a child is probably the most painful experience a parent can go through. This guide talks about grief from the Islamic perspective using quotes from the Qur'an and Hadith. Buy from Ta Ha Publishers also available in Urdu A Guided Journal for the Bereaved Muslim Parent Zamir Hussain The loss of your child can be one of the most anguishing and painful experiences a parent can go through. This journal is on hand for you to work through your feelings with a gentle guiding hand. Buy from Ta Ha Publishers A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss - Guidance and Support for You and Your Family Ingrid Kohn, Perry Lynn-Moffit and Isabelle Wilkins For families seeking emotional and practical support after a pregnancy loss. Well organised and easy to read this book offers practical suggestions for the many topics covered. They include bereaved mothers, fathers, grandparents, explaining to your children and what might help. Sections can be read as and when bereaved parents feel able. Buy from Amazon Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief Dr. Joanne Cacciatore Through generous, insightful writing and moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities--as well as her own experience with loss--Cacciatore opens a space for us to process, integrate, and deeply honour our own grief. Buy from Amazon I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This Clare Mackintosh When bestselling writer Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she searched for help in books. All of them wanted to tell her what she should be feeling and when she should be feeling it, but the truth – as she soon found out – is that there are no neat, labelled stages for grief, or crash grief-diets to relieve us of our pain. What we need when we’re grieving is time, understanding and to be shown that we’re not alone. With 18 short assurances that are full of compassion – drawn from Clare’s experiences of losing her son and her father – I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This is the book she needed then. Buy from Amazon Mainly for Fathers A short booklet containing information that many fathers whose baby has died said they needed to know. It includes sections on feelings, telling other people, you and your partner, returning to work, certificates and registration. Available from Sands Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss Kim Kluger Bell Written by a psychotherapist and counsellor. Approaches for healing for women and men who have experienced miscarriage, abortion, infertility and other pregnancy losses. Buy from Amazon When Words are not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief Jane Harris Everyone grieves for someone at some point in their lives. But how do we deal with the silence that often surrounds grief? How do we find ways to express painful feelings when words are not enough? In this deeply personal and beautiful reflection on grief Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds draw on their own experience of loss, and how the death of their son Josh has led to a creative response that is more than word bound.Buy from Amazon Manage Cookie Preferences