>Suggested Reading

This list represents materials that team members involved with First Candle recommend for use by bereaved families and the professionals who work with them.  This list is a beginning, rather than an exhaustive list, of recommended titles.  First Candle reviews bereavement materials on an ongoing basis.

First Candle is the national organization that exists to promote infant health and survival during the prenatal period through two years of age. 

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

A Loving Goodbye Series:  Taking Care of Yourself Plus Facts About Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  Oklahoma SIDS Alliance.

Coping with Grief After the Death of a Baby From Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:  What Every Child-Care Provider Should Know.  C.A. Carr, ed.

Crib Death--SIDS.  Oklahoma Department of Health

SIDS & Multiples.  Center for Loss in Multiple Birth.

SIDS Public Education Speaker's Training Kit. Mississippi SIDS Coalition.

SIDS:  A Response to Parents Whose Baby Has Died.  Sids Resources, Inc.

Standards for Public Health Nurses.  California SIDS Program

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Information for Clergy.  Northeastern Ohio SIDS Foundation

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:  For Grandparents.... A 'Double Grief'.  Greater Pittsburgh National SIDS Foundations/Pennsylvania SIDS Alliance  (Copyright: Pennsylvania SIDS Alliance.  Reprinted and distributed with permission by California SIDS Program.)

The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals Who Seek to Help Them. (2nd Edition).  J.N. Horchler and R.R. Morris (SIDS Educational Services, Inc.)

What Can I Do?  Helping a Family Whose Baby Has Died From Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:  Suggestions for Friends, Relatives and Co-Workers.  SIDS Resources, Inc.

What Every Child-Care Provider Should Know About Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  C.A. Corr, ed.

For Fathers:

Fathers Grieve Too.  Rev. Terry Morgan, Chaplain James Cunningham, Ray Goldstein, and Earl Katz.

Healing a Father's Grief.  William H. Schatz

Helping Men in Grief.  A.D. Wolfelt

Men and Grief.  Bereavement Services, RTS.

Strong and Tender:  A Guide for the Father Whose Baby Has Died.  Pat Schweibert, R.N.

For Couples

For Better......Or Worse:  A Handbook for Couples Whose Child Has Died.  Maribeth Wilder Doerr.

Grieving as a Couple.  M. McNurlen. (MN Sudden Infant Death Center)

Healing Together:  For Couples Grieving the Death of Their Baby.  M. Lister and S. Lovell.