Books
There is an ever growing number of books available for dads along with two amazing companions to guide you through your loss. Links below will direct you to their websites, their socials or direct to purchase.
where to from here? A Guided Grief Journal
A Guided Grief Journal for Families Suffering the Loss of a Child Through Stillbirth
This guided grief journal aims to help parents through their grief. In these pages you will find solace, a shared experience and passages to relate your grief to, to remind you that you're not alone.
For the times when you can't feel at all, you will find colouring pages designed to guide the mind through a meditative repetitive practice, and hopefully help renew the colour of your world.
Written by Rob Saunders - Billie’s Dad
This guided grief journal aims to help parents through their grief. In these pages you will find solace, a shared experience and passages to relate your grief to, to remind you that you're not alone.
For the times when you can't feel at all, you will find colouring pages designed to guide the mind through a meditative repetitive practice, and hopefully help renew the colour of your world.
Written by Rob Saunders - Billie’s Dad
A Little Help From Jack & A Little Help From Remy
A Little Help from Jack was created by Emily Judd and Nick Waldron in memory of their son Jack Robert Waldron who was born still at 38.6 weeks on the 5th of October 2021. It is a practical resource companion for pregnancy and baby loss.
A Little Help from Remy was then developed in collaboration with Meagan Donaldson in memory of her son Remy Asher Donaldson who was born via TFMR on the 11th of February 2023. It is a practical resource companion for termination for medical reasons (TFMR).
The companions are for those experiencing pregnancy and/or baby loss at any gestation or age. Importantly it is also for those wanting to know how to support them including family, friends and health providers.
Anyone affected by baby loss will find a little help in these companions.
A Little Help from Remy was then developed in collaboration with Meagan Donaldson in memory of her son Remy Asher Donaldson who was born via TFMR on the 11th of February 2023. It is a practical resource companion for termination for medical reasons (TFMR).
The companions are for those experiencing pregnancy and/or baby loss at any gestation or age. Importantly it is also for those wanting to know how to support them including family, friends and health providers.
Anyone affected by baby loss will find a little help in these companions.
A Heart that works- Rob Delaney
In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.When you're a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you not only try to help them get better but you also labour under the general belief that you can help them get better. That's not always the case though. Sometimes the nurses and the doctors can't fix what's wrong. Sometimes children die.
This is the story of what happens when you lose a child, and everything you discover about life in the process.
My Little Star- rory H Mather, Matt Shanks
welcome to the sh!t club
(Welcome to) The Sh!t Club is an honest story about a man struggling with worthiness, belonging, and control, only to be transformed through his devastating blessing. This book invites you into the heart of loss and healing when Jason’s world is undone by the stillborn death of his son, Ezra. Whether you are mere days or many years into your journey with loss and grief, this book will give you a sense of recognition and encouragement that you are not alone as it guides you into the healing path of acceptance, vulnerability, and embrace.
daddy and the two bears
This powerful book about a journey of grief, loss and mental health struggles will inspire and captivate you as a reader. Gary tells how he navigated the emotional journey of his wife's pregnancy, the birth, and then the loss , of his twin baby daughters, Alana & Dana. This was all happening while he was also dealing with his own mental health issues and traumas. This book will inform Dads suffering with mental health and bereavement, partners, family members, midwives, neonatal staff, doctors, nurses, mental health professionals and counsellors - anyone who would benefit from gaining an insight into such a tragic time. This book offers hope to all that read it.
He Lost His Baby Too
This book was written specifically for fathers grappling with the unbearable aftermath of losing a baby. It is all too easy for a bereaved father to succumb to a haunting sense of isolation after such a loss. However, within these pages lies a lifeline—a survival guide infused with wisdom, providing a roadmap through the complicated path of grief.
Grieving Dads: To The Brink And Back
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back is a collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child. This book is a collection of survival stories by men who have survived the worst possible loss and lived to tell the tale. They are real stories that pull no punches and are told with brutal honesty.
Men And Miscarriage
From an esteemed author known for battling gender norms and bringing down "man up" culture, comes this essential guide for men and those who love them.
Miscarriage, infertility, and abortion are generally considered women’s issues—and while they are far from uncommon in our society, open conversations surrounding those topics are exceedingly rare. They're seen as taboo, even distasteful. And that’s just for women.
Miscarriage, infertility, and abortion are generally considered women’s issues—and while they are far from uncommon in our society, open conversations surrounding those topics are exceedingly rare. They're seen as taboo, even distasteful. And that’s just for women.
Asher, My Son: A Year in the Life of a Childless Father
The loss of a child leaves few lives untouched. Regrettably, one in four pregnancies ends in loss. As a result, numerous families shoulder the uniquely painful and difficult burden of a grief that only the death of a child brings. "Asher, My Son: A Year in the Life of a Childless Father" is an account of that grief from a father's perspective over the course of one year. It is the author's hope that Asher's story offers comfort to those who have suffered loss and provides helpful insight to those who seek to support those families and individuals.
From Father to Father: Letters From Loss Dad to Loss Dad
This book is a simple book of letters written for you, a grieving loss dad, from other loss dads who are living and surviving after the death of their precious child. In the pages of this book, fathers from around the world share letters of love from their hearts to yours with the hope that, maybe, in the darkest, loneliest hours of grief, you will find a little bit of comfort in the words of another father who has been where you are now.