Our library is divided into 3 sections: by birth week, by our experience, and by healing activities.
This is just our library of stories. For articles, information, networking resources, please visit the tabs at the top of the page.
01.] Birth Stories: By Week
This section holds our baby’s birth stories. They are held in sections according to when our babies were born and/or when our babies died. You may see personal photos within our stories. The second section below holds our stories according to our experiences and journeys. You may find a story in more than one listing.
04 Weeks . 05 Weeks . 06 Weeks . 07 Weeks . 08 Weeks
09 Weeks . 10 Weeks . 11 Weeks . 12 Weeks . 13 Weeks
14 Weeks . 15 Weeks . 16 Weeks . 17 Weeks . 18 Weeks
19 Weeks . 20 Weeks . 21 Weeks . 22 Weeks . 23 Weeks
24 Weeks . 25 Weeks . 26 Weeks . 27 Weeks . 28 Weeks
29 Weeks . 30 Weeks . 31 Weeks . 32 Weeks . 33 Weeks
34 Weeks . 35 Weeks . 36 Weeks . 37 Weeks . 38 Weeks
39 Weeks . 40 Weeks . 41 Weeks . 42 Weeks . 43 Weeks
02.] Our Stories: By Our Unique Experiences
Adoption/ Foster/ Surrogacy Loss
All Multiples All Newborns/ Diagnosis
Child Death (infancy to adulthood)
Diversity (cultural, ethnic, faith, regional)
Donating Decisions (organ, tissue, breastmilk)
Ending Fertility With Loss & TTC Challenges
Friends & Family (stories from loved ones perspective)
Holidays (and the struggle to face them)
Home Birth Loss/ Out-of-Hospital Loss
Honoring Uncertainty (for mothers who believe they experienced loss but do not know for certain)
Infertility/ Recurrent Loss (different from “ending with a loss”, this section includes recurrent losses)
Leap Day Losses (the calendar only honors this day once every 4 years. We honor this day every year.)
Live Miscarriage (“neonatal death” of babies born alive prior to “age of viability”)
Living Grief (includes adoption, menopause, or decision to end fertility, while still recognizing the pain of loss in this decision)
Loss after ART (assisted reproductive technology)
NICU Grief (the difficult journey of just the NICU)
Prior to the 1990’s (because every decade sees dramatic change in support)
Provider Care (stories for and by providers: nurses, doulas, midwives)
Siblings (stories & art for and by siblings, as well as general information that may support youth)
Single, Separated or Widowed Parents
Snowflake Babies (frozen embryos)
Stewarding Grief (decision to end fertility but grieving)
For More Reading by Specific/Unique Subject
- Find a Book or add yours
- Find a Blog or add yours
- Read our Information about Your Experience
03.] The Journey Beyond: After the Birth Stories
Our birth stories are often just the beginning of our story. Here, stillbirthday offers several ways for you to continue to share about your journey, including activities, events and more.
Art/Photography/Color
- Beyond Words (all art & pictures)
- Claim the Space (pictures & stories to identify the things we discover are spaces of pain along the journey)
- Project Zero: Womandalas (a zero art project)
- Still Remembered (visual legacies, including tattoos)
- Still Together (photos of living children with items that hold space for their deceased sibling)
- Love Letters from Your Doula
- Love Letters to My Baby
- Love Letters to My Body
- Love Letters to My Daughter (mothers writing letters to their surviving or subsequent daughters)
- Love Letters to My Spouse (for either partner to write to the other)
More Parts to Our Stories/ Life After Loss
- Getting Pregnant Again (pregnancy only, after loss, stories)
- Live Birth: Sunshine & Rainbows (share live birth stories: “sunshine” babies born prior to loss, “rainbow babies born after loss)
- Rainbow Birth Stories (subdivided specifically for mothers pregnant after loss to read encouragement)
- Rainbow Milk (the experience of lactation at any time after loss)
- Holding Umbrellas (parenting stories by those who parent both through rearing and grieving)
- Mothering Our Mourning (a general category that holds a variety of pieces)
Still Parenting Journal An opportunity for you to piece all of your contributions, birth stories, art, love letters and more and gather them into one link, called a Still Parenting Journal.
SBD News/ General
- Credentialed SBD Doula publications
- Credentialed SBD Chaplain publications
- SBD News/ SBD News Team (all general news, updates & contributed articles)
- Giveaways & Updates (subdivided from SBD News)
- Campaigns & Programs (subdivided from SBD News)
- Outside Insight (a collection of information & news for those “outside”, not impacted by loss)
- Special Sponsors (collaborative organizations that support our mission)
For More Reading
- Find a Book or add yours
- Find a Blog or add yours
- Read our Information about Your Experience
