Family Resources

The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a nationwide mutual self-help bereavement organization offering friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families that have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. TCF/USA has nearly 600 chapters with locations in all 50 United States plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

Miss Foundation
MISS is a nonprofit, volunteer based organization committed to providing emergency support to families in crisis after the death of their baby or young child from any cause.We are here to help families cope with the resultant feelings of overwhelming grief and loss. We are committed to public awareness to decrease infant mortality; we support medical research committed to the same cause. Our vision is to perpetuate education and awareness on ethics and death issues; decreasing enigmas surrounding grief and increasing bereavement sensitivity , and crisis intervention protocol establishment through a psychosocial, multidisciplinary training program. 

Children are a gift foundation
The missions of the Children Are A Gift Foundation is to enable families who have lost a child, have a special needs child or are unable to have a child to find peace and support through the healing process. 

Heavenly Angels in Need charity is here to serve all babies, children and their families in need. They knit, crochet, sew, craft and more to try and fill every need possible.They serve Children's hospitals, hospitals with Neonatal Intensive care units, Pregnancy Crisis Centers, Shelters, Foster care, emergent situations and more. They are helping grieving families by supplying them with much needed burial and memorial items. They give clothing, blankets, hats, booties, care bags, and more to all babies and children in need. They are reaching out to the World sharing the Love of God through giving. Heavenly Angels in Need mission is to help every baby and child who need.

The Remembering Our Babies Memorial Store was created to provide Memorial and Awareness items for those who are suffering or may know someone who has suffered a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, a still birth, or the loss of an infant. It is also to help promote, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day October 15th. When ordering please use the code NILMDTS. A portion of the proceeds will be donated back to the Now I lay me down to sleep organization.

Hygeia® is a leading global internet community for pregnancy loss and neonatal death and an important resource for maternal and child health. Information regarding pre-pregnancy health, pre-natal health and maternal and child health is essential in improving the quality of health in all populations.

www.anencephalie-info.org
Anencephaly is a congenital birth defect that occurs in approximately one in one thousand pregnancies. Anencephaly is a neural tube defect, just as is spina bifida. Life expectancy for a baby with anencephaly is just a few hours, sometimes a few days at most.

The Midwife Archives is a collection of information about all aspects of pregnancy, birth and well-woman care from a midwifery perspective.

The Trisomy 18 Foundation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit corporation in the Commonwealth of Virginia (EIN 77-0600393) with offices in the Washington, D.C. metro area of Northern Virginia whose mission is to provide support as well as the development of programs and services to meet the needs of families whose children are diagnosed with Trisomy 18.

M.E.N.D. is a Christian not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is to reach out to those who have lost a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death and offer a way to share experiences and information through support groups, the quarterly newsletter, and our Internet web site.

The mission of Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, Inc. is to serve those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or in the first few months of life.

The mission of the parent-led National Stillbirth Society is to "educate, agitate and legislate" for greater stillbirth awareness, research and reform. Ours is an "activist" organization, fighting to overcome the inertia of traditional practices and challenge medical care providers who routinely accept stillbirth as an unfortunate but unavoidable outcome of pregnancy in a small percentage of cases.

LLOST (Loss of Loved Ones to Sudden Tragedy Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit/Tax Exempt Organization created to provide support for those who are living with the loss of a loved one. We hope you find this place of some comfort. Our mission is to support, by all means possible, those left behind after the loss of a loved one to a sudden tragedy. As you know, those grieving can use all the support they can get.

 

NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, IRS EIN# 77-0656322.
All proceeds go directly into the operation of this organization to help parents who are experiencing an early infant loss.

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