White Pumpkin Family
Supporting Families Affected by Infant & Pregnancy Loss
RESOURCES
Information - Support - Keepsakes
In an effort to help fill the gap, we’ve collected resources to assist you in your journey of infant loss. These include national websites as well as Southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky organizations. Many of these resources are most applicable immediately after delivery or loss, but we hope that by sharing them, we can better educate future loss families. If your care provider would like a list for their facility, please share their information with us so we can reach out and help these resources reach parents as soon as possible. Also, if you have resources to add, please email them to us!
Overview
We are so sorry for your loss. This section contains general information about miscarriages, stillbirths, and more and what you can do immediately following your loss.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has an excellent website full of loss resources. Topics include: Next steps, talking with family, emotional and physical healing, and additional resources.
Bereavement Doulas
Similar to a regular doula, a bereavement doula offers support to parents and family who are experiencing a loss or who receive a life-limiting diagnosis for their infant.
Baby Whisperer Birth Services (Local)
Loran Bernert, 502-381-6618
Stillbirhday.com
Doulas, Events, Memorial Ideas, and More.
Photographers
While you may not desire photographs now, most loss-families highly recommend you have them done if the opportunity is available.
Momma KT Shoots (Local)
Now I Lay me Down to Sleep
Photography, Care Packages, Events
Next Steps
Depending on gestational age, you may be able to bring your baby home. Ask your provider what your options are and search online for urns and keepsakes you can treasure for years to come.
Scott Funeral Home in Jeffersonville, Indiana has an Angel Fund, which allows parents to host services at no cost to the family. Only the wholesale costs of goods or services will apply.
Raven’s Art Boutique is a personal favorite of ours. This shop turns your dried flower petals into ornaments, bookmarks, jewelry and more.
Grief Support
While you may not want to socialize right now, it’s important you do not grieve alone. We hope one of these communities can help you on your healing journey.
First Hour Grief Response hosts a local support group. The group’s coordinator, Lindsay Merrifield has hosted local remembrance events as well.
Missing Pieces is a beautifully crafted e-book full of truths every mom needs to hear after a loss.
Your Guide to Grief lists several helpful groups on the back cover who can help you connect to other loss families and professionals who understand your heartache.
Rachel’s Gift offers support groups, educational programs, keepsake boxes, and more.
Star Legacy Foundation offers online support groups for parents, pregnancy after loss, dads, grandparents, parenting after loss, and coping with SUID/SIDS & Infant Death, also available in Spanish.
Lactation
You may begin to produce breastmilk. This can bring up an array of emotions. You are validated in whatever you feel. If you choose to pump, you have the opportunity to donate your supply to a local milk bank in your child’s honor. You can also have jewelry made from your breast milk.
Emptyarmsbereavement.org
Lactation Support After Loss (Information Brochure)
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Breast Milk After the Loss of a Baby
Milk mama share of Louisville
Private Facebook group
Mammas Liquid Love
Breastmilk jewelry
