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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A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.

— Jennie Finch

I honor you. {I DO}ula.

— an SBD Doula

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

— Stendhal

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

— Erich Fromm

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

— Mark Twain

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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.