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The Ultimate resource bundle
We compiled our most helpful resources for navigating a life-limiting diagnosis. This bundle includes 25+ pages of resources like:
Understanding & Processing Your Grief
Preparing for Labor & Delivery
Memory Making (for after your baby is born)
Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service
Resources for Marriage after Loss
Resources for Faith after Loss
Resources for Remembering & Honoring your Baby
Hi, sweet mama.
I’m so sorry that you’re here. You are in one of the most tender and vulnerable places you could be right now. You’ve just heard words that you never expected (and possibly never heard). You have probably looked up definitions to things you attempted to scribble down when your doctor called with your lab results. Maybe you replay that scene in the ultrasound room over and over again. You’re probably in shock. Lonely. And you have so many questions. Questions like: What do I do now? How do we continue to go forward? What’s going to happen?
You might not even know what questions you should be asking.
All you know is that you thought your pregnancy was going to end one way, and instead, it appears that your child’s life will look very different. Anticipatory grief is deep, powerful, and confusing at times. God says his grace is sufficient for you even in this (2 Corinthians 12:9), and even in the sorrow, we trust that you’ll also experience joy.
We hope that this is a helpful starting place for you as you walk this road. Imagine this like a conversation with friends – an opportunity to hold hands with many women who have walked ahead of you and have given ideas and suggestions for what made the difference for them in their journey. We hope that they inspire you and help you make decisions as you prepare to meet your child. Mostly, though, we hope you know you aren’t alone. We are here with you.
You’re so loved… and your baby is, too.
xo,
Meg
P.S. You can hear the story of my son Jacob here.
what is the morning?
helpful Resources &
hope-filled community
for women finding joy after the loss of a baby or during the anticipation of loss after receiving a terminal or life-limiting diagnosis for their baby.
who is the morning for?
The Morning is for anyone who is walking through grief after experiencing the loss of a baby or walking through anticipatory grief after having received a life-limiting diagnosis for their baby. Whether you are a mama who has experienced early pregnancy loss, late pregnancy loss, stillbirth, premature birth, ectopic pregnancy, a life-limiting diagnosis for your baby or infant loss by some other means, this place is for you.
Our desire at The Morning is to provide community in meaningful ways to help you connect with other moms who have experienced a similar loss and understand what you are going through. We also desire to provide resources specific to your loss that will help you navigate this grief journey.
helpful resources
helpful
books, articles, & blogs
BOOKS
Holding on to Hope: A Pathway through Suffering to the Heart of God, Nancy Guthrie
When Your Family’s Lost a Loved One: Finding Hope Together,
Nancy & David Guthrie
I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Joy & Grief,
Angie Smith
Suffering & The Sovereignty of God,
John Piper
Walking With God Through Pain & Suffering,
Tim Keller
Safe in the Arms of God,
John MacArthur
God’s Grace in Your Suffering,
David Powlison
Suffering,
Paul Tripp
It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way,
Lisa Terkheurst
Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief,
Claire Bidwell Smith
Buried Dreams,
Lindsey Dennis
Grace Like Scarlett,
Adriel Booker
The Grace to Grieve,
Kate Kelty
Mourning & Dancing (Bible Study),
She Reads Truth
ARTICLES & BLOGS
What I Said At My Granddaughters Funeral,
John Piper (Desiring God)
Letter To A Parent Grieving the Loss of a Child,
John Piper (Desiring God)
What Happens to Infants Who Die? Desiring God,
John Piper (Desiring God)
Miscarriage Resources,
Adriel Booker
Children’s Books
Tear Soup,
Pat Schwiebert
Audrey Bunny,
Angie Smith
Our Heaven Baby,
Leah Vis
Perfectly Imperfect Family,
Amie Lands