Infant Loss Resources
We are so sorry for your loss. At a time filled with so much emotion, it is important to be surrounded by those you draw comfort from: your family, friends, and perhaps a pastor. The following supportive resources were put together by our Maternity and Newborn Care Center staff and local community members who received support from these services. If you have any questions regarding maternal bereavement support, please call us 908-788-6171.
Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey
- Provides online resources, available grief support groups in northern NJ, and a list of suggested books
Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
- Provides information about Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)- a bereavement program funded by the NJ Department of Health for those who have experienced the loss of their baby(ies) from 20 weeks in pregnancy to 1 year of age
- Offers support groups, memorial events, and online resources (based in Montclair, NJ)
Postpartum Support International
- Offers a helpline, support groups, and resources for loss and grief in pregnancy and postpartum
- Offers virtual support groups for first-time loss, recurrent loss, second-trimester loss and more
- Offers virtual support groups, information & education about miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death
- Offers grief support, education, and awareness for those who have experienced loss on their journey to parenthood
- Offers a grief support line and virtual support groups for those who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or sudden infant death
- Connect with parents who have experienced loss and are there to listen and offer support
- Provides online resources for parents, families, and friends
- Offers program to help children and teens cope with loss (located in Morristown & Princeton, NJ)
Healing After Loss Outreach
- Offers bereavement birth and postpartum doula support
- Offers a 12-week holistic healing program helping bereaved mothers adapt to life after loss: personal reflection, peer support, trauma-informed yoga, grief rituals
- Offers remembrance events and resources
- Based in Hunterdon County, NJ
- haloutreachnj@gmail.com
UNITE
- Offers grief support after miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death
- Provides virtual peer to peer grief support groups, literature, educational programs, training workshops, and group development assistance
- Hunterdon Behavioral Health offers a full range of outpatient psychological services. The behavioral team utilizes evidence-based practices to meet the unique needs of the patients, including depression and perinatal loss.
- Schedule an appointment for any of our services and locations by calling (908) 788-6401, prompt number 4, or toll-free at 1-866-424-2060.
Speak Up When You're Down Hotline
- Will help link you to mental health resources in your community (offered by the NJ Department of Health)
- 1-800-328-3838
- Offers one-on-one in-person or virtual support with licensed therapists (located in Chatham & Denville, NJ)
- A licensed therapist offering perinatal loss support in a one-on-one setting
The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
- A 4 week virtual yoga for grief series (donation-based) is offered every couple of months
- Amy Wright Glenn is a certified yoga instructor as well as a birth doula and a hospital chaplain who has had her own personal experience with pregnancy loss
- Trainings in holding space for pregnancy loss are also offered here
- Offers a 12 week holistic healing program designed for those who have experienced pregnancy loss.
- Program provides opportunities for personal reflection, peer support, trauma-informed & postnatal yoga practices, grief rituals.
- Weighted teddy bears
- Weighted teddy bears to match the exact weight of baby
- Therapeutic teddy bears
- Personalized candles
- A portion of every candle sold is donated to nonprofits working to help families navigate grief, loss, and healing
- Handmade jewelry
- A portion of every product sold is donated to women experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss