Spoiler List of Books and Movies

This is a “spoiler” list of books, movies, and other media which reference pregnancy & infant loss.

This is not to be mistaken for our list of actual support books and resources for pregnancy and infant loss – though a couple titles were added to both, like Return to Zero, because they are wonderful.

Knowing what media represents the healing community is a good thing.

Sometimes it’s nice to intentionally engage in the subjects of our journey.
Other times, it’s nice to enjoy a film or a book without facing an unexpected or painfully intruding reminder.

Having this list can be valuable to show that Hollywood and others in fact do address bereavement, it can help us determine which ways loss is demonstrated respectfully and which ways it is demonstrated offensively, and it can help to shield us if we would like to avoid a depiction of pregnancy/infant loss while enjoying a book or movie. A stillbirthday mother also suggested viewing the database “Does the Dog Die?”

Please leave comments below, to add to the list (including a link might be helpful too, so we can determine which ones, if there is more than one movie with the same title), and please tell us which titles reference bereavement respectfully, and which ones reference our journeys offensively.

Books

The Help
Handle with Care
The Prodigal Summer
Where the Sidewalk Ends (“Dreadful” poem)
Big Love (secondary infertility)
What Alice Forgot

Movies

Return to Zero (stillbirthday is in the end credits!)
This is Our Time (by the makers of Fireproof and Courageous)
Marley and Me
Away We Go
A Walk in the Clouds
Lorenzo’s Oil (childhood diagnosis)
Battle in Seattle
Then She Found Me (adoption)
Seven Pounds
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Maybe Baby
Secret Window
Karate Kid
Benjamin Button
Finding Nemo (Disney/Pixar) (depicts secondary/additional trauma)
Up (Disney/Pixar)
Astro Boy
Couple’s Retreat
Revolutionary Road
Facing the Giants (difficulty TTC, no loss)
Courageous
The Help
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Cider House Rules (incest, elective abortion, cremation, orphanage)
The Way

Television

The Big C
Private Practice, season 5 finale
Call the Midwife (includes crisis births and infant death)
Season 2, Episode 6 of The Fosters

About Children’s Loss of Parents

All Dogs Go To Heaven
Angels in the Outfield
Cinderella
Sword in the Stone
Because of Windixie

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

— Paulo Coelho

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

— John Calvin

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Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.