Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child after Pregnancy Loss (Hardcover) – A Devotional Book on How to Cope, Mourn and Heal after Losing a Baby

Christian based mini devotionals for those who have experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth. This book has been the most helpful thing in my healing journey with grief! Therapy tips to cope such as focusing on things you can control, stages of grief, and how to take care of yourself. It includes spiritual tips to let go and align your will to God. At the end of each chapter there is a prayer and little assignments to work on. People were extremely uncomfortable around me after my miscarriage. I felt so isolated and alone. Everyone grieves differently and it's hard to know how to help unless you ask and get specifics. I didn't even know what I needed until a month after it happened. Here is my advice if you know someone who is suffering. - This book is a great gift and has the tools to walk them through grief and strengthen their relationship with God. - Acknowledge the person's loss. A quick hug or hand squeeze is all you need to do to comfort someone if you don't know what to say. I got a shoulder squeeze and an "I love you" from someone in passing 3 months after my miscarriage and it meant the world to me. - You can check on them anytime. It's never too late. It's been 8 months now and I think about it everyday. The pain isn't as raw but the grief doesn't ever fully go away. - If you don't know what to say just say generic phrases like, "I'm sorry for your loss." or "This sucks." or "I'm here if you need anything." Please don't say anything trite. "Everything happens for a reason. At least you already have a child. It was God's will." It's a slap to the face and not comforting even if the statement is true. - Ask them how they would like to be served. What's their love language? (left alone, talk about it, dinner, help with laundry/cleaning, hugs, etc.) Anytime I saw someone I would burst into tears so I wanted to be left alone for months. But I still needed encouragement and appreciated texts and chatting online.)

This is a great book. It really helped me while I was struggling after a miscarriage. It was uplifting and encouraging without being trite or trivial. It helped me process my emotions of sadness and anger, and enabled me to be hopeful for the future.

I really love this book , It really helped me in one of the hardest time of my life . I loss my daughter back in 2021 and I almost lost my life as well. I had no desire for life after that. The pain was so bad I didn't want to live anymore, but through this book and making videos for myself to relieve myself the pain until I got therapy really helped. It's hurt wound but I'm finding my purpose as I walk through this pain . Out of all of that I gained another baby girl. I hope this help someone else.

A few friends gave this to me in a difficult time. God was able to use it in amazing ways - helping me navigate emotions that I was unaware that I needed to process yet. I have been left very grateful to have had the opportunity to read this. A few months later, I have been able to give other mamas this book and encourage other who haven’t dealt with grief for years to pick it up

There are SO many good things I could say about this book, but the one that really stands out the most to me is the Soul Work sections, in which the author gives the reader suggestions on simple things to do or think about. For example, we all know that when tragedy strikes, many people around us simply do not know how to help us. Inevitably, they will say all the wrong things. One of the author's suggestions is to write these hurtful things down on a piece of paper, mark them out with a marker, and then throw the paper away. It's the simple things in life that seem to help the most, and this author seems to really get this fact and works to help the reader through simple activities or simple thoughts to ponder, that just don't seem to be coming to mind all that easily during tragedy. Along with her thorough understanding of child loss grief and how to lovingly reassure and comfort someone struggling with it, she also has a clear love for God and His Holy Word. The Scriptures she includes go along well with what she discusses, and help bring to mind that no one who has God is ever truely alone. I recommend this book to any Christian woman grieving the loss of a baby. Others may also find answers here, on how to better understand and help the women in their lives who are grieving the loss of a baby. As it is written on the back of the book, what you will find here is absolutely "Christ-filled comfort" during a time of great loss.

This is a wonderful devotion book for working through the grief that follows miscarriage. The daily readings are not too long but still have a great deal of substance and provide opportunities for further activities to help the reader process grief. I would recommend this to any woman going through the loss of her baby.

I hated looking for books because most just discuss miscarriages and that’s fine, but it’s not the same as a stillbirth. I had a late term stillbirth at 37.5 weeks and I needed a book that went into the depth of the sorrow of delivery or your body “remembering” baby. I actually hated this book at first and thought it was cliche, so I put it down for 2-3 months and then one day God said, “read another chapter”. And I obeyed. I’m so glad I did. I am at 15 months without my daughter and am entering into the phase of anger, but the conviction to start letting go of the life I had imagined for us and truly accepting my new fate without her. This author captures the horrors we experienced as loss moms and the scripture used isn’t cliche or like the top 10 verses all Christian’s know. They seem hand picked for each chapter and are ones that God revealed to me before reading this book, so it felt like a treasure opening the book up to find them. No “ONE” book is going to heal you. If one could, it would be the Bible, but this book has changed my healing process and I’m forever grateful for it. I love it so much I purchased one for a fellow coworker who has a miscarriage. She speaks Spanish as her first language, so I wish this came in other languages, but she says it’s helping her too. I hope this review helps someone. God hasn’t forgotten about us. This book is evidence of his love. I fully believe that.

Loved the one I received from a friend.

Of the dozen books I received after by Hannah was stillborn, this is the one I buy for friends going through infant loss. Loved Baby is a balm to a broken soul.

Quick delivery much appreciated and good read

Gifted this to a dear friend that had a miscarriage.. she said she's really enjoying this book and describes all her feelings she couldn't find words for. Definitely recommend this book.

Brought due to recently losing my baby at 7-8wks u can relate to womene experiences

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