The following are a few of our favorite book recommendations. You'll find titles for healing during and after loss, for thriving during modern pregnancy, and even some to support your walk through motherhood. Some of these we have read ourselves, and others come highly recommended from other trusted loss-mamas. We are providing links to Amazon (because it’s easy—but please do not feel the need to buy specifically from here… support a local bookshop or a brick and mortar!), Also, *Please Note* — we do not receive any compensation for any of the following links — these are just great reads and wanted to share. So seek them out: buy, listen, borrow, or even check-out at your local library if they are available!

Black Angel Mom Guided Journal
Jeanae M. Hopgood-Jones

The Black Angel Mom Guided Journal is designed to help navigate the challenging world of healing after perinatal loss. With free space to write, journal prompts, activities, and coloring pages, this guided journal helps walk you through the internal and external worlds of grieving while supporting you to integrate and grow from such a hard experience. Though the term "mom" is used, this journal is designed to support anyone, of any identity, who has experienced pregnancy or infant loss. If you are looking for a journal targeted towards this very special loss experience, created by a fellow Black Angel Mom and psychotherapist, combined with amazing artwork from Black creators, this is the guided journal for you!

Expecting Sunshine:
A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy after Loss
Alexis Marie Chute

In the forty weeks of her pregnancy, Chute grapples with her strained marriage, shaken faith, and medical diagnosis, with profound results. Glowing with riveting and gorgeous prose, Expecting Sunshine chronicles the anticipation and anxiety of expecting a baby while still grieving for the child that came before―enveloping readers with insightful observations on grief and healing, life and death, and the incredible power of a mother’s love.

Grief Works
Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
Julia Samuel

An instant bestseller in the UK, Grief Works is a profoundly optimistic and compassionate handbook for anyone suffering a loss—from the expected death of a parent to the sudden death of a child or spouse—as well as a guide for those who want to help their grieving loved ones.

Grieving the Child I Never Knew:
A Devotional for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn or Newly Born Child
Kathe Wunnenberg 

When the anticipation of your child’s birth turns into the grief of miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death, no words on earth can ease your loss. But there is strength and encouragement in the wisdom of others who have been there and found that God’s comfort is real. This devotional collection will help those mothers grieve honestly and well. With seasoned insights and gentle questions, it invites the reader to present her hurts before God, and to receive over time the healing that He alone can – and will – provide.

Grace Like Scarlett:
Grieving with Hope after Miscarriage and Loss
Adriel Booker

This title was recommended to us by a fellow Miscarried Mama who mentioned this specific book had brought a lot of peace to her heart as she walked through her miscarriage. With vulnerability and tenderness, Adriel Booker shares intimate stories about her experiences with miscarriage to help you navigate your own grief and know you aren't alone. She tackles complex questions about faith, suffering, and God's will with sensitivity and clarity, devoid of religious clichés or pat answers. Ultimately, Adriel invites you to a wide-open place of grace, honesty, and genuine hope as you discover a redemption story unfolding in the shadows of your loss. She also includes practical resources for ways to help guide children through grief, advice on pregnancy after loss, and special sections for dads and loved ones.

I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
Jessica Zucker

Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. She now had a changed perspective on her life’s work, her patients’ pain, and the crucial need for a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent transition amid her own grief became a catalyst for Jessica to bring voice to this ubiquitous experience. She embarked on a mission to upend the strident trifecta of silence, shame, and stigma that surrounds reproductive loss—and the result is her striking memoir meets manifesto.

Still Here: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph After Stillbirth
Alishia Anderson

Did you or someone you know and love suffer from baby loss via stillbirth, miscarriage, neonatal death or infant loss? If so, this is the book for you! Still Here is the memoir of grieving parents navigating the joys of pregnancy and the extreme lows of (baby) loss. Still Here is a personal testimony of how love, faith, and support can bring you back from the abyss after the loss of your precious baby, into a life of purpose. Alishia wrote this book in hopes to remove the shield of shame, and isolated suffering as well as shed light onto the cloak of secrecy wrapped inside of baby loss. Most importantly, Alishia wrote Still Here as a personal tool to heal her broken heart after suffering the devastating loss of her twenty-eight-week old son. She hopes that her pain and restoration would be the jumpstart for someone else’s recovery after loss. She also delved into the untapped, and often forgotten, perspective of a grieving father after baby loss with her husband Derrek. It is Alishia’s prayer that Still Here reaches your heart no matter where you are in your grief journey.

Love Letters to Miscarried Moms
Written in the Midst of My Grief So That You Will Not Be Alone in Yours
Samantha Evans

This is the story of Samantha's journey, the same journey that each mother who miscarries begrudgingly embarks on—the excitement of pregnancy, the overwhelming, unfathomable devastation and loss, the grotesque details that no one speaks of, the uphill road toward hope and freedom—and the Savior who walks beside her every step of the way.

It's OK That You're Not OK
Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Megan Devine

Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides—as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner—Megan writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, “happy” life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it. 

I Will Carry You:
The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy
Angie Smith

Angie Smith and her husband learned through ultrasound that their fourth daughter had conditions making her “incompatible with life.” Advised to terminate the pregnancy, the Smiths chose instead to carry this child and allow room for a miracle. That miracle came the day they met Audrey Caroline and got the chance to love her for the precious two-and-a-half hours she lived on earth. I Will Carry You tells the powerful story of a parent losing her child, interwoven with the biblical story of Lazarus to help those who mourn to still have hope—to find grace and peace in the sacred dance of grief and joy.

Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Lora Shahine MD

Not Broken is a comprehensive, evidence-based but easy-to-read guide for anyone who wants to understand all aspects of miscarriage and recurrent pregnancy loss. Whether you are a patient struggling with miscarriages or a medical provider caring for patients with recurrent pregnancy loss, you will learn something from this resource. Dr. Shahine explains not only a typical Western medicine approach to evaluation and treatment for miscarriage but also includes Eastern approaches to care, lifestyle factors that will decrease your risk of miscarriage, and the emotional impact of recurrent pregnancy loss. You will finish this book feeling more empowered to be an advocate for your care and more hopeful than ever to continue towards your family goals.

The Magic of Motherhood:
The Good Stuff, the Hard Stuff, and Everything In Between
Ashlee Gadd

In this book you’ll find heartwarming essays about identity, adoption, body image, miscarriage, friendship, faith, infertility, and more. The Magic of Motherhood is a curated collection of honest stories that weave together the love, joy, and magnificent heartache of motherhood. Motherhood can often feel overwhelming and isolating. You find your feelings swinging between joy and uncertainty, intense love and anxiety, laughter and tears. Through it all, you constantly ask yourself, “Am I the only one who feels this way?” The Magic of Motherhood will reassure you that you’re not alone. Full of encouragement, humor, and wisdom that will speak to you right where you are.

Nurture:
A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood - and Trusting Yourself and Your Body
Erica Chidi Cohen

Nurture is the only all-in-one pregnancy and birthing book for modern mothers-to-be and their partners who want a more integrative approach. Author Erica Chidi Cohen has assisted countless births and helped hundreds of families ease into their new roles through her work as a doula. This beautiful, comprehensive and judgement-free pregnancy companion covers everything from the beginning months of pregnancy to the baby's first weeks. It even includes supportive self-care and mindfulness exercises, trimester-specific holistic remedies, nourishing foods and recipes for every month of pregnancy for the modern mother.

Don’t Struggle in Silence
I AM A V.I.C.T.O.R: Sharing your story after pregnancy loss opens the door to healing
Ashley K. Pittman

Stop. Breathe. Exhale. You can forget to breathe after losing a baby to miscarriage. We often see "RIP" or "Rest in Heaven" for people that we have spent precious time with before they passed. What about those that pass before they had a chance to exhale their first breathe before or right after birth? This is known as miscarriage, stillbirth, or late term pregnancy loss. This is a loss that any type of women can experience but often feel guilty, alone and feel fearful to speak about. A group of brave, powerful, and extraordinary women open up and speak out about their heartbreaking experience losing a child during or after pregnancy and how they found the strength to move forward and not lose hope. Your emotions will be overwhelmed by the stories in these pages. You will find hope and healing as you consume every story of these six incredible women. They decided to share their story, inspire others, and not struggle in silence.