Find Resources & Support

  • Bereaved Parents of the USA
    A national non-profit self-help group that offers support, understanding, compassion and hope especially to the newly bereaved.
  • Brief Encounters
    Offering support groups in the Portland Metro area for parents of pregnancy loss, fertility issues, and subsequent pregnancies and adoptions.
  • Centering Corporation
    Education on grief and loss for professionals and the families they serve.
  • Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families
    Offering support for children and teens in the Portland area.
  • Glow in the Woods
    For parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds. In the beginning you stagger, disoriented, through this storm. We want to be a glow through the trees, a golden refuge of log and glass.
  • HAND: Helping After Neonatal Death
    Helping After Neonatal Death helps parents, their families and their healthcare providers cope with the loss of a baby before, during, or after birth.
  • Hygeia
    To comfort those who grieve the loss of a pregnancy or newborn child.
  • Jizo Ceremony for Children Who Have Died
    Annual ceremony at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie.
  • M.E.N.D. Miscarriage Support
    Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death is a Christian, non-profit organization that reaches out to families who have suffered the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death.
  • MISS Foundation
    A non-profit, volunteer-based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause.
  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Forums
    Support forums for bereaved families. Affiliated with national non-profit organization offering photography for families whose babies have died or who anticipate a loss.
  • Grief Watch
    A small, family-run non-profit that has one mission in mind, assisting you in your time of pain and personal journey through bereavement.
  • Resolve: The National Infertility Organization
    A non-profit organization promoting reproductive health.

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Lending Library

The Nora Madelyn Fund has created a lending library of resources for parents and caregivers focusing on perinatal loss and grief issues. The lending library is located outside of the Creation Chapel on the second floor of the Providence Newberg Medical Center.

Please feel free to borrow any materials that you may find of use and comfort. We ask that you return them to the bookshelf when you are finished with them.

The following materials are a partial list of books in the lending library (availability may vary):

  • About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing and Hope edited by Jessica Berger Gross
  • After The Death of A Child: Living with Loss Through the Years by Ann K. Finkbeiner
  • Assessing Spiritual Needs by George Fitchett
  • The Bereaved Parent by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
  • The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed: A Mother’s Story of Loss and Hope by Kathleen Willis Morton
  • Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss by Jane Heustis and Marcia Jenkins
  • Empty Arms: Coping after Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death edited by Sherokee Ilse
  • Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah L. Davis
  • An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagniation by Elizabeth McCracken
  • A Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby’s Life is Expected to Be Brief by Amy Kuebelbeck, Deborah L. Davis
  • The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth About It) by Patty Dann, Sallie Sanborn
  • The Good Grief Club by Monica Novak
  • A Grandparent’s Sorrow by Pat Schwiebert
  • Grieving the Child I Never Knew by Kathe Wunnenberg
  • Help, Comfort and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or the First Year by Hannah Lothrop
  • Life Touches Life: A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth and Healing by Christiane Northrup MD
  • Miscarriage: Women Sharing from the Heart by Marie Allen
  • Naming the Child: Hope-Filled Reflections on Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death by Jenny Schroedel
  • Prayers & Rituals at a Time of Illness & Dying by Pat Fosarelli
  • Pregnancy After a Loss: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Miscarriage,Stillbirth or Infant Death by Carol Cirulli Lanham
  • A Silent Love: Personal Stories of Coming to Terms with Miscarriage by Adrienne Ryan
  • A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss—Guidance and Support for You and Your Family by Ingrid Kohn, et al
  • Something Happened: For Children and Parents Who Have Experienced Pregnancy Loss by Cathy Blanford
  • Strong and Tender by Pat Schwiebert (for fathers)
  • Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
  • Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Loss by Ann Douglas, et al
  • Water Bugs & Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children by Doris Stickney
  • We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead by Pat Schwiebert (for children)
  • What Do I Say: Talking with Patients About Spirituality by Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
  • When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter by Judith R. Bernstein
  • When Your Friend’s Child Dies: A Guide to Being a Thoughtful and Caring Friend by Julane Grant

Several of these titles have also been donated by the Nora Madelyn Fund to the Newberg Public Library and Sherwood Public Library.