Baby Bereavement Resources
There are no words for the pain. But, you are not alone.
Here are some resources we have found for grieving parents and families,
from support groups and grief blogs to memorial service ideas and
baby memorial quotes and poems. We also provide links here to
custom memorial cards, thank you notes, and personalized memorial gifts.
We hope you find this page helpful
Please share with us other web pages you have found helpful.
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Baby Memorial Cards and Bereavement Thank You Notes
Emotional Support
| Infant Memorials Free Online memorials This is a nice free one. Some charge a fee. |
FirstCandle.org Grief Blogs and information for SIDS and stillborn |
March of Dimes from hurt to healing |
Resources Page Helping After Neonatal Death |
| A grief blog for parents and grandparents |
A site for grieving grandparents |
More Support Links | A Children's Book to help deal with the death of a sibling |
| What to Expect.com premature baby bereavement |
M.E.N.D. (Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death) | Miscarriage help |
Baby Memorial Planning
| The March of Dimes has a very helpful page with ideas for the parent to help remember and memorialize the baby |
Baby Bereavement Gowns / Resting Gowns A store run by a mother who lost a baby and a nephew |
A photo to remember by infant remembrance photography |
Infant memorial stones |
| Planning an infant memorial Article from one of the best sites we found with poems, readings, songs, links, and more for your baby memorial. |
Teddy Love Club Lots of baby memorial ideas and options |
Just A Cloud Away - a personal description of writing a memorial poem. Very nice page. She sells beautiful memorial scrapbook kits called "remembrance kits". | |
| Creative and meaningful ways for people to express their grief: • make a unique guest book, perhaps a special scrapbook where mourners can add to pages |
• collect toys or baby clothing for a hospital or shelter at memorial service • display pictures, ultrasound, momentos |
• have the guests create a piece of art at the memorial service, giving a chance for all those affected to take part. Perhaps a simple outline shape, i.e. footprint or handprint, on white paper that guests can add their thumbprint to, filling in the shape. |
Memorial Cards and Bereavement Thank You Notes
| Baby Bereavement Thank You Notes and Memorial Cards  Personalized cards for your baby memorial service and thank you notes to send out later. |
Etiquette - What to say in thank you notes not geared towards loss of baby, but may be helpful. |
Etiquette- Thank You Note Wording not geared towards loss of baby, but may be helpful. |
Baby Memorial Gift Ideas
| Personalized memorial gifts - from frames and plaques to blankets and figurines, here are some good places to begin searching for an infant memorial gift. Personalization Mall Gifts for You Now Abbey Press |
Baby Footprint Memorials Etched glass footprint plaque Memorial portrait of baby (from photograph) by Darla Dixon |
Memorial Gift Idea Angel figuines and statues Personalized Memorial Cross Tile, and other nice personalized gift items. |
Stillbirth, baby loss and miscarriage jewelry La Belle Dame My Forever Child |
Poems and Quotes
| Ten Tiny Toes We couldn't wait to hold you And see your pretty face. To count you little fingers, And check your toes are in their place. It should have been the happiest day To remember all our life. But joy had turned to heartache, No breath, no beat, no life. We will never see you smile, Or hear your hearty cry. We will never be able to dry your tears, Or share your happy times. Our precious little Angel, We will always know your face. In our hearts and stars forever, You will always have a place. |
These are My Footprints These are my footprints, so perfect and so small. These tiny footprints, never touched the ground at all. Not one tiny footprint, for now I have my wings. These tiny footprints were meant for other things. You will hear my tiny footprints, in the patter of the rain. Gentle drops like angels tears, of joy and not from pain. You will see my tiny footprints, in each butterflies' lazy dance. I'll let you know I'm with you, if you give me just a chance. You will see my tiny footprints, in the rustle of the leaves. I will whisper names into the wind, and call each one that grieves. Most of all, these tiny footprints, are found in mummy's heart, cause even though I'm gone now, we'll never truly part. |
| Please don't tell them you never got to know me It is I whose kicks you will always remember, I who gave you heartburn that a dragon would envy, I who couldn't seem to tell time and got your days and nights mixed up, It is I who acknowledged your craving for ice cream by knocking the cold bowl off your belly, I who went shopping and helped you pick out the perfect teddy bear for me, I who liked to be cradled in your belly and rocked off to dreamy slumber by the fire, It is I who never had a doubt about your love, It is I who was able to put a lifetime of joy into an instant. |
A million times I've missed you, a million times I've cried. If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died. To some you are forgotten, to others just part of the past; but to me who loved and lost you, your love will always last. It broke my heart to lose you, you didn't go alone, for my life went with you -sweetheart- the day angels called you home. For things on earth didn't matter, but now I feel so alone, My heart will always be broken, my life will never be whole. We might be parted for awhile, our hearts will always be together for one day soon we will hold hands again forever. |
| Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away |
Only a Moment How quietly he tiptoed into our world. Softly, only a moment he stayed but what an imprint his footprints have left upon our hearts. |
| All Those Months Your little heart beating so strongly All those months Is silent. Your little arms and legs Moving so vigorously Are still. Milk falling like tears from your mother's breasts Will never nourish you. Your eyes will never sparkle Your little voice forever silent. Your mother and father hold you in their arms, Timidly kissing your soft, smooth cheek Caressing your tiny fingers And whispering your name with tears. We dream of holding you Of watching you smile and grow Our love is always with you Though you will never know. |
Holding Luke in the palm of my hand, He could not be more perfect. Looking over him, to share with others what I see. His hair so dark, His eyes so brown, His nose like a button, His lips like a rose His daddy’s chin You given me the greatest love from within. |
| Sometimes love is for a moment. Sometimes love is for a lifetime. Sometimes a moment is a lifetime. |
I waited so long for you and then in such a short time you were gone. Such a tiny life, such a huge impact. |
| Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller |
A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen |
| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach | Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland |
| An Angel with the book of life wrote down my baby's birth, and whispered as she closed the book, "too beautiful for earth" |
"God made babies to bring the sweetest gift of love. He blessed our hearts as parents with a gift from up above. God shared with us our baby girl and filled each day with true delight and how we've both missed your happy smile which would have made our world so bright." |
| A life so brief, A child so small, you had the power to touch us all" |
"A Thousand Words Can't Bring You Back, I Know Because I Tried And Neither Can a Million Tears, I Know Because I Cried" |
| Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown | Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ~Edgar Allan Poe |
| "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your soul. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”– Matthew 11:28-30 |
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6 |
| The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 | "God saw her getting tired, a cure was not to be. So he wrapped her in his loving arms and whispered come with me. She suffered much in silence, her spirit did not bend She faced her pain with courage, until the very end She tried too hard to stay with us, her fight was all in vain God took her to his loving home, and freed her from all the pain." |
| If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again. ~Author Unknown |
More memorial quotes and poems: Unborn Angels Quotes and Poems Memorial Poems - some really beautiful Baby Breath Memorials poem collection What Makes a Mother Poem on Darla Dixons page Memorial Poems - from BeyondTheVeil.net |
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