Whether your loss is a miscarriage, pregnancy loss, a stillbirth, SIDS, or infant loss, this is a devastating event and one that you should not have to go through alone. There are many support groups, counselors, online chat boards, and other resources to help you through your grief. Please contact us if you are in need of support. We will help you find it.

Local Support Groups:

Healing Hearts Share
(949) 222-6604 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
healingheartsshare.net

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Perinatal Loss Support Group
(949) 764-6864
www.hoaghospital.org/loss

Empty Arms at Saddleback Church
(949) 609-8411 x7070
www.saddlebackfamily.com

Guild for Infant Survival, Orange County--SIDS support
(800) 247-4370
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Empty Arms at Friends Church
(714) 777-7384 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.emptyarms.ylfc.org

National Support Groups:

SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a nationwide support group offering stories, articles, chat room, and more.  They have an excellent newsletter that is free for the first year of membership.  There is also an annual “Walk To Remember” event.
www.nationalshare.org

Mothers in Support & Sympathy (MISS) Foundation is an international organization for parents dealing with the death of a child.  They offer online support as well as merchandise, articles, poetry, etc.
www.missfoundation.org

American Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute
www.sids.org

Preeclampsia Foundation
www.preeclampsia.org; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month & Remembrance Day
The official site of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day.  October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month.  This site offers support, online memorials, educational information, merchandise, and more.
www.october15th.com

A Place To Remember
Support resources for those who have been touched by a crisis in pregnancy or the death of baby. Offers a wide selection of support materials, merchandise, and resources for pregnancy and infant loss.
www.aplacetoremember.com

Hygeia Foundation,Inc.and Institute for Perinatal Loss and Bereavement
articles, resource and referral information, personal stories, and user database.
www.hygeia.org

Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death (MEND)
Online support and newsletter, articles, etc.
www.mend.org

Perinatal Loss
Infant loss resources for bereaved families and professional caregivers. Offers personalized “Certificate of Life” for miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal loss, as well as birth/death announcements, ornaments, urns, t-shirts, etc.
www.griefwatch.com/pl/default.htm

Honored Babies
A support and resource organization for women whose babies have died.
www.honoredbabies.org

Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB)
www.climb-support.org

Parents of Multiples (POMS) Forever
www.erichad.com/pom/

Memorial Merchandise and Services

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep - Infant Bereavement Photography
Bereavement Photography offered free of charge for terminally ill babies in hospital. A non-profit organization that assists families suffering an early infant loss. Also offers memorializing ideas, etc.
www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org

My Forever Child - Keepsakes and Jewelry
Offers a wide variety of beautiful child loss keepsakes – jewelry, bookmarks, keychains, candles, etc.  Also can have the actual image of your child's handprint or footprint as a keepsake piece of jewelry.
www.myforeverchild.com

Angels In Heaven
Offers merchandise such as keepsakes, cards, music, and books.
www.angelsinheaven.org

Centering Corporation
Offers grief support materials in English and Spanish dealing with miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss.  Large selection of books and other reading materials.
www.centering.org

La Belle Dame
Offers miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss memorial jewelry as well as hand-crafted sympathy cards.  Also has a line of fertility and pregnancy jewelry.
www.labelledame.com

Church of the Holy Innocents
Will inscribe your baby’s name in the Book Of Life, dedicated to unborn babies, free of charge, and send you a Certificate of Life.
www.innocents.com

BabyAngelPics.com
Offers free photo retouching services to parents of stillborn babies.  Skilled digital artists work with a digital copy of your original, eliminating medical equipment, removing unsightly marks and even replacing the background if desired.
www.babyangelpics.com

Heartprints Photo Retouching
Heartprints offers free photo retouching services for families who have lost a baby through stillbirth or prematurity.
personal.nbnet.nb.ca/crempel/Heartprints/

Darla Dixon - Artist
Fine Art Portraits Drawn from Photos. Offers pencil portraits drawn from your stillborn baby’s photographs.
www.pencil-portrait-drawing-artist.com/memorials.html

Baby Face Illustrations
Offers memorial portraits of stillborn babies.
www.babyfaceillustrations.com