If you or a loved one has experienced an early-induction pre-viability termination after prenatal diagnosis, you may find one or more of these support resources helpful.

Reading: Natty’s Pond: Finding Hope and Forgiveness after a Medically Advised Abortion

Retreat: Entering Canaan Adverse Diagnosis Healing Retreat

Support Organization: Lumina Abortion Recovery. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you belong to an organized religion, you may also find healing experiences through your faith tradition. Catholics may go to the sacrament of reconciliation. Other Christians may find healing and peace through talking with their pastor or other peer ministers.

If you’ve experienced a miscarriage caused by your child’s condition, you may find one or more of these support resources helpful. They are familiar with prenatal diagnosis and loss.resources.

You Made Me Mom

Serving moms who have lost babies during pregnancy or infancy.   

Prenatal Partners for Life & Lumen Caeli Outreach

Lumen Caeli is our new outreach which means Light of Heaven. It is support for families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, as well as a loss of an older child from a medical condition.

Heaven’s Gain Ministries

Heaven’s Gain Ministries’ mission is to provide for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of families experiencing pregnancy loss: before, during, and after the delivery of their precious baby.

Abel Speaks

Abel Speaks offers support to parents experiencing loss after carrying to term a child with a life-limiting.  

From Heartache to Hope

This private support group for bereaved parents is part of the ministry of Verity's Village, a faith-based non-profit that supports families who receive a life-limiting diagnosis for their babies. Whereas our other support network, From Diagnosis to Delivery, is open only to parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis (or have a suspected diagnosis), this group is open to ANY parent who has experienced the loss of a pregnancy and/or child after birth.

This is a safe community for parents to connect with others who sadly know the heartache associated with losing a child and share information and resources.

 

• Healing Embrace Weighted Bears

[A weighted bear at the exact weight of the baby, or a bear wearing the clothes of the baby, can also serve as a tangible physical memorial.] It isn’t uncommon for a parent’s arms to physically ache with the emptiness of them. Through HEALing Embrace, special stuffed bears can be purchased to memorialize a baby who has died and bring comfort to a grieving parent or family. Created with love and assembled by caring volunteers at the weight of the baby lost, these keepsake bears provide a surrogate that helps family members start their journey toward healing. This unique gift provides families with a physical connection to their newest member.

• Heartbox Bears

Shop custom themed teddy bear gift boxes for a variety of occasions and recipients – each one includes a custom plush bear which you can also personalize by adding a prerecorded message with the Record Your Voice feature. Get ready to get your gift on, because HeartBox™ is sure to become your go-to gifting destination.

• Hope Mommies Hope Boxes

Hope Boxes support Hope Mommies™ mission by giving a tangible gift that expresses love, provides Biblical truth, and invites bereaved women into a community of fellow Hope Moms.Hope Boxes are our main point of contact with bereaved moms. They are a gift that invites them into our community, and lets them know that, even in the brokenness, there is a God who sees and cares for them. In honor of our tenth anniversary, we have redesigned our beloved Hope Box into a beautifully curated box of gifts and resources, which are custom, and identifiable, as a Hope Mommies gift. These new boxes contain: an ESV Bible, a Heaven Booklet, Bright Hope, a custom journal, a bookmark, worship music, a handwritten note, and our brochure, along with various comfort and pampering gifts such as: tea, lotion, lip care, a wristband bracelet, a candle, and a custom mug. We pray these boxes encourage grieving well, while pointing to the hope of Christ that will sustain for years to come.

• Lullaby of Hope

Our team consists of women who volunteer their time to love on women like you. We love to laugh but we are also serious about sharing in your loss.  We believe in extending comfort just as Christ did for us and to live out 2 Corinthians 1:3. You can find some of us grinding a 9-5 while others are busy at home. We worship at different churches, but this calling we share grounds us and we are thankful for the loss that binds us together. Our Wonderfully Made Gift Box is curated for women who are journeying loss in the womb by women who have journeyed a similar path.

• Molly Bears Weighted Bears

[A weighted bear at the exact weight of the baby, or a bear wearing the clothes of the baby, can also serve as a tangible physical memorial.] Welcome to our Molly Bears Family. We are saddened over the loss of each precious child and strive to bring hope and healing. We create weighted teddy bears for families coping with any form of infant loss. Molly Bears is here to serve as a community of support and comfort. We'll be here for you, we know you'll be here for us too. To receive your very own personal Molly Bear, fill out the order form when it is opened each month.

• Mommies of an Angel Weighted Bears

[A weighted bear at the exact weight of the baby, or a bear wearing the clothes of the baby, can also serve as a tangible physical memorial.] On 11/21/15 our world completely turned upside down, we said hello to our son Noah and also said goodbye. As the days followed, the one thing we wanted most was to just hold him in our arms one more time. So it started with holding his clothes and blanket. It than turned to a bear that was given to him, a simple toy that was suppose to be his. We wondered that if it just weighed what he did, would the weight of him make us feel better? So I did what any Mom would do, I took some rice, weighed it out to his weight and filled up the bear. We kept this bear close to us for many days and it was comforting. At that point, we decided that if we had found an ounce of comfort than we had to provide it to other parents out there too. So that's how Mommies of an Angel started! It was simply about doing anything to feel an ounce of comfort and wanting to share it with people who have also lived the same nightmare we did. It is part of our healing journey and we hope that we become a part of someone else's. 

• Project Sweet Peas Memory Boxes

Project Sweet Peas' mission is to empower and support families of fragile infants, and to inspire hope through remembrance for those affected by pregnancy and infant loss.Each individual request will include: "Forever" cuff style bangle, Glass votive with candle, Awareness ribbon pin, Keepsake ornament, Remembrance charm, Forget-me-not seeds, Footprint magnet, Handkerchief, Vinyl footprint decal, Grief & Healing Journal, and a Teddy bear.

• Remember Me Bear

To bring comfort to our family I created teddy bears and other items from clothing they had worn. With the support of family and friends I began Remember Me Bear™ as an outreach to bring healing to those who were experiencing their own grief. My desire is to help others not only through their grieving process, but to celebrate joyous occasions as well, such as new births, weddings, graduations and other special events.

• The Comfort Cub; Therapeutic Teddy Bears

The Comfort Cub is the world's very first weighted therapeutic teddy bear.  It was invented with love by founder Marcella Johnson in 1999 after the loss of her infant son, George.  She created this therapeutic tool to ensure that no other woman would ever have to leave the hospital empty handed after such a devastating heartache. The Comfort Cub is specially weighted and is intended to simulate the comfort of cradling a newborn.  This weight can help alleviate physical aching in the body brought on by Broken Heart Syndrome or grief.

• Through the Heart Comfort Kits 

Through the Heart provides Comfort Kits free of charge to individuals, couples and families who have recently suffered a pregnancy loss.While nothing can take away the pain of a loss, it is our hope that this kit will provide some distraction during a difficult time and provide resources to begin healing. But the support does not stop there! We know that pregnancy loss is an ongoing process and we want to ensure that you have the resources you need long-term. In addition to the initial kit, each recipient also receives 2 notecards: one to check in at 3 months post-loss and one at the one-year anniversary.

If you’ve lost a child due to a genetic or medical condition shortly after your child was born, you may benefit from additional support.

Facebook Group: From Heartache to Hope

This private support group for bereaved parents is part of the ministry of Verity's Village, a faith-based non-profit that supports families who receive a life-limiting diagnosis for their babies. Whereas our other support network, From Diagnosis to Delivery, is open only to parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis (or have a suspected diagnosis), this group is open to ANY parent who has experienced the loss of a pregnancy and/or child after birth.

This is a safe community for parents to connect with others who sadly know the heartache associated with losing a child and share information and resources.

 

Additionally, please visit our Life-Limiting condition support page for loss resources.