9 BOOKS

about miscarriage

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If you're looking for the best books about miscarriage to read when struggling with a miscarriage, this list of books should help!

Books About Miscarriage

1. I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement by Jessica Zucker

Drawing from her own life changing experine as she miscarried her 16 week pregnancy at home, alone, as well as her epertise in maternal mental health, psychologist Jessica Zucker shares a heartbreaking and validating book about miscarriage. Together with her own stories as well as others who have experienced pregnancy loss, this book will inspire you to heal, and to speak your truth.

2. The Baby Loss Guide by Zoe Clark Coates

Zoe Clark Coates, one of the world’s leading baby loss experts, designed The Baby Loss Guide to help you during and through the complex issue that is miscarriage. The Baby Loss Guide provides practical and compassionate advice from a first-person perspective. Through her book, Zoe shares how she and her husband found their way through their heartbreaking losses and how they were able to keep their hope alive.

3. Saying goodbye by Zoe Clark Coates

Another personal story about baby loss from Zoe Clark Coates, Saying Goodbye hopes to help parents lost in grief. Alongside her own account of pain and unanswered questions, Zoe includes 90 days of daily support in Saying Goodbye. The hope is that during these 90 days you find solace and comfort, even during the most difficult days weeks, and months following miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death.

4. Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families by Alan D Wolfelt

This was a book a therapist recommended to me and I found it beneficial for those of us who may find a black and white blueprint for healing intriguing. Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage contains 100 practical ideas to help those suffering through a pregnancy loss. Ranging from practical, action oriented tips, suggestions for cultivating relationships through an isolating times, fostering communication between partners, reconciling loss, and more, this compassionate guide is for anyone grieving in the aftermath of a miscarriage.

5. Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child after Pregnancy Loss – A Devotional Book on How to Cope, Mourn and Heal after Losing a Baby by Sarah Philpott

Loved Baby is a Selah Award winner for Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Book in the category of Inspiration and Gift. With this book, Sarah hopes to offer much-needed support to parents in the middle of the emotional and physical grief that comes from losing an unborn child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or pregnancy loss.

6. About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope by Jessica Berger Gross

Twenty writers come together in this intimate collection of their explorations in and through the grief and sadness and hope that living through a miscarriage can bring. Reading through their honest narratives was like looking in a mirror, my anguish and brokenness reflected in much more deeply moving words than I could hope to put together. This powerful anthology looks to break the silence and stigma surrounding the topic of miscarriage and pregnancy loss with a wide array of experiences and perspectives and hopes to provide comfort and community.

7. The Miscarriage Map: What To Expect When You Are No Longer Expecting by Dr. Sunita Osborn

If you’re looking for an honest book about miscarriage, with all the nitty gritty and a little humor sprinkled in, I highly suggest The Miscarriage Map by Dr. Sunita Osborn. Armed with her clinical expertise and personal losses, The Miscarriage Map addresses the unspoken happenings after you lose a pregnancy. Things like the impact of miscarriage on a marriage/relationship, your relationship with your body after loss, hating pregnant people and more.

8. You Are Not Alone: Love Letters From Loss Mom to Loss Mom by Emily R Long

As the title suggests, Emily R Long’s book You Are Not Alone centers around one main idea, that you are not alone in your loss. It’s filled with stories and love from so many different women who have also lost pregnancies and experienced stillbirths, all with different loss experiences. Their letters will touch you in ways you didnt know you needed, and feel like they were written directly to you by the best of friends.

9. Grieving the Child I Never Knew: A Devotional for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn or Newly Born Child by Kathe Wunnenberg

Author Kathe Wunnenberg hopes to help mothers whose hearts have been broken, and who wonder how they will go on. Grieving the Child I Never Knew is a 31-day devotional that includes readings for holidays and special occasions, scripture passage and prayer, steps toward healing questions, and space for journaling.

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