Resources for families who deliver their baby in the Birth Center
A founding goal of the Nora Madelyn Fund for Infant and Child Loss is to provide funding for the resources and comfort items used by the Providence Newberg Hospital Birth Center staff in caring for bereaved parents. The hospital’s Perinatal Loss Committee oversees these resources. Nora’s Fund provides to families who experience a loss in the Providence Newberg Birth Center:
- The book An Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death, as well as a journal, which can be used as a safe place to express thoughts and feelings
- A memory box for items such as your baby’s footprints, a lock of hair and other items
- Comfort items such as remembering hearts and Comfee dolls
- A loss packet which includes a list of support resources, including referral to the Portland-based pregnancy loss support group, Brief Encounters
- Pamphlets for family members, including grandparents and fathers
- Spanish language booklets for parents and grandparents
- The children’s book We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead, which can be given to siblings to help comfort them in a confusing and sad time
- Other books on pregnancy loss, grief and healing, made available to families through the fund’s Lending Library, located just outside of the hospital chapel
- Assistance with funeral, burial or cremation costs in cases of financial need
- Thank you to Ginger Ross, LMT of Guardian Angels Massage and Bodywork for donating massages to parents who have experienced pregnancy loss, in honor of her angels Rex and Rogue
Resources for families experiencing early to mid-term losses
Nora’s Fund provides to families who experience a loss in the emergency or short stay departments, as well as patients of our community medical providers:
- Comfort items such as remembering hearts
- A loss packet which includes a list of support resources, including referral to the Portland-based pregnancy loss support group, Brief Encounters
- A miscarriage kit to assist in delivering your baby at home
Other resources
Bereaved Parents of the USA
A national non-profit self-help group that offers support, understanding, compassion and hope especially to the newly bereaved.
Centering Corporation
Education on grief and loss for professionals and the families they serve.
Glow in the Woods
For parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds. In the beginning you stagger, disoriented, through this storm. We want to be a glow through the trees, a golden refuge of log and glass.
HAND: Helping After Neonatal Death
Helping After Neonatal Death helps parents, their families and their healthcare providers cope with the loss of a baby before, during, or after birth.
Hayden’s Helping Hands
Hayden’s Helping Hands is a non-profit foundation in the Portland area who helps Oregon and Washington families after the birth of a stillborn baby by paying for a portion or all of their hospital delivery expenses.
Hope After Loss
Peer bereavement support programs to women and men who grieve the loss of a pregnancy or infant.
M.E.N.D. Miscarriage Support
Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death is a Christian, non-profit organization that reaches out to families who have suffered the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death.
MISS Foundation
A non-profit, volunteer-based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause.
Resolve: The National Infertility Organization
A non-profit organization promoting reproductive health.
Still Standing Magazine
For all who are grieving child loss and infertility.
Articles
Getting Through the Holidays
For parents. The holidays are a difficult time after the loss of a baby.
How to Support a Bereaved Parent
For friends and family.
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