For Parents

Losing a child is a life-altering and heart-wrenching experience. As a parent, you will experience the full range of emotions: sorrow, anger, doubt, fear, guilt, and more. Please know that you are not alone, and that all these emotions are a normal part of the grieving process. In addition to the services we provide parents listed on the right, you may find some of these resources useful:

Following a Death

• Planning a Service (PDF)
  
• Investigators, Coroners, and Autopsies (PDF)
• Have You Considered?...Planning Your Child's Service (PDF)

The Grieving Process

• Getting Through Grief:  From a Parent's Point of View (PDF)
• Grieving Alone:  A Single Parent's Experience (PDF)
  
• Taking Care of Yourself (PDF)
• The Death of a Child, The Grief of the Parents: A Lifetime Journey (PDF)
• Surviving the Death of a Baby (PDF)
• Helping Children Cope with Grief When an Infant Dies (PDF)
• Grieving Children (PDF)

Down the Road

• Facing Special Days (PDF)
• Subsequent Children (PDF)
  
• Finding a Counselor(PDF)

More Resources

• RBaby Foundation Real Stories - Create a free online story about your baby
• National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center (NSIDR)
• California SIDS Program
• Recommended Readings(PDF)
• Other Grief Resources (PDF)

For questions about any of these resources, please contact the main office at 1-800-533-0376 or info@nwsids.org

Our informational and emotional support includes the following resources:

• Family packets and SIDS & Infant Death Survival Guide – We mail these to every family that requests one.

• Peer Companions: It often helps to speak with someone who understands the pain you are experiencing. A "Grief Companion" is a trained volunteer who can offer you a chance to share your grief and encourage you through this difficult time.

• Support Groups


• Referrals

For questions about any of these resources, please contact the main office at 1-800-533-0376 or info@nwsids.org