The following are our favorite links for gifts and mementos to support loss mamas and mamas in waiting. Whether you're a loss mom yourself looking for a special item of remembrance, or a friend or family member looking to send comfort their way, we are hoping the options below will help you spread love during a time when people are most in need of your support.
SUPPORTIVE GREETING CARDS
#IHadAMiscarriage
Greeting Cards, Prints and Apparel to Support Women Through Miscarriage
In 2015, Dr. Zucker created a line of pregnancy loss cards with the aim of filling a gaping hole in the cultural conversation and in the marketplace. Jessica's goal with this collection is to help people have the tools to connect after loss, providing the antidote to "I just don't know what to say".
The Noble Paperie
A Stationery Brand Dedicated to Supporting Those Struggling Through Miscarriage, Loss, Infertility, NICU Stays + Complicated Pregnancies
After walking through a miscarriage, and then an incredibly complicated pregnancy, Kate created her first six greeting cards to support loss mamas and The Noble Paperie was born. Since 2016, The Noble Paperie’s mission has been to support women walking through miscarriage, infertility, and other pregnancy-related issues by offering uniquely crafted paper greetings, and a supportive community.
KEEPSAKES + GIFTS
Adjourn Tea House
All Natural, Hand Blended, Full Leaf Teas
Adjourn Tea House is an artisanal loose leaf tea company that offers beautifully unique, superior quality, hand blended teas that are sustainably sourced from around the world. Adjourn believes in creating moments to recenter and balance your whole selves through rituals that allow us to adjourn - bring present tasks, worries, stresses to a close for a period of time. Tea brewing, steeping and drinking allows us time to do so and is profound and necessary in our daily lives. They encourage their customers to adjourn more often by sharing tea blends that allow us all to be more present.
Every Mama’s Heart
Hand Lettering Love + Loss for Every Mama’s Heart
Caileigh is a mama of three: one on earth, and two in heaven. Caileigh created Every Mama’s Heart to share her babies' stories, to connect with other loss moms, and to hopefully help normalize baby loss and grief by creating meaningful messages for the side of motherhood most turn away from. Stickers, prints, and custom keepsakes for those nurturing the memories of babies & children that did not get to stay.
Harperiman Dolls
Handmade Linen Dolls + Accessories
Harperiman Dolls are beautiful, handmade, linen, keepsake dolls and accessories created by a mother-daughter duo, Cynthia Watkins and Kathryn Burnett. These two women found that their children were left playing with and trying to identify with dolls that look nothing like them. They wanted to change that, so these incredible women created a line of dolls with different skin tones and hair textures. There is also the option to order a custom doll from their site. These would be an especially thoughtful option for a sibling after experiencing the loss of their brother or sister.
Joy Comes In The Morning: Coloring Through Infant Loss & Miscarriage
A Coloring Book for Women Experiencing Miscarriage, Still Birth, or Infant Loss by I Am Fruitful
If you have experienced a miscarriage, still birth, or infant loss— this coloring book is for you! It also makes a thoughtful gift for a friend going through the devastating loss of a baby. It is a beautiful collection of over 25 inspiring pages designed by artists from Alaska to Hawaii, from East Coast to West! The pages include a variety of styles, ink drawings, and digital creations. Many of the artists have experienced miscarriage or infant loss, and on the back of each page they share encouragement for the grieving heart. It's also available on Amazon Prime!
My Pretty Peggy
Bespoke Peg Dolls
My Pretty Peggy is a one-woman business run by Erin Cherry. Erin loves painting every order, but the item she is most passionate about are her baby loss dolls. After 7 miscarriages of her own, she feels uniquely equipped to talk with these special customers about their grief and guide them in creating a one-of-kind, pocket-sized keepsake to carry with them as they journey life after loss.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Remembrance Photography
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep trains, educates, and mobilizes professional quality photographers to provide beautiful heirloom portraits to families facing the untimely death of an infant. They believe these images serve as an important step in the family's healing process by honoring the child's legacy: that in the midst of barrenness and grief Jesus was their constant comfort. They have gifted more than 40,000 complementary portrait sessions since 2005 and have approximately 1,500 active photographers, reaching every state in the United States! They have also been present in 40 countries worldwide. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep also host a Remembrance Walk to remember and honor babies gone too soon, and to raise awareness of pregnancy and infant loss.
Tree Fairfax
Leather Goods
Tree Fairfax at its core, is minimal leather goods that are long lasting with timeless designs that will hopefully change how you move about the world. Each bag is created so that you can move around lightly; carrying only what you need in your beautiful, handcrafted leather bag. Each piece is hand cut and stitched using locally sourced, high quality leather. Tree Fairfax uses leather hides with natural imperfections and incorporates them into each bag, giving you a one of a kind piece while also cutting back on waste. A leather bag or belt would be a great alternative option as a remembrance gift.
Weathered Raindrop
Wind Chimes Providing Comfort Through The Storm
Weathered Raindrop creates beautiful, handmade memorial wind chimes, and many are created specifically for mamas walking through miscarriage or stillbirth. A wind chime would be a unique gift to offer the special loss-mama in your life, and to give her an audible reminder that her babe is always with her.
CURATED GIFT BOXES
Hope Box
Monthly Curated Subscription Boxes
Over one, six, twelve, or more months, Hopebox provides a way to show loved ones you're there and you're not going anywhere. The beautiful handmade gifts inside are personalized with a heartfelt note of caring and concern specific to the receiver's unique situation. Flowers wither, meals spoil, but the memory of receiving a Hopebox lasts a lifetime.
Laurel Box
Thoughtfully Hand-Curated Small Batch Gift Boxes Designed to Nourish a Heart After Loss.
Each and every laurelbox is presented with their premium packaging and personal touches. During checkout, you have the option to include a gift message that they will hand-write on your choice of a complimentary card. Not sure what to say in your card? These two phrases are gentle and sensitive. "We pray that this gift nourishes your heart. I am so sorry for your loss." They also have a beautifully curated blog called Motherhood Rewritten which shares stories to support women feeling excluded on Mother’s Day.
JEWELRY
Bobbi Made This
Polymer Clay Earrings
Every item is created in Bobbi’s home in North Carolina with her four children helping with the production and packaging. Each earring is created with love and every purchase helps to support her household. Bobbi is hopeful that every earring purchased and worn reminds you just how beautiful you are.
Hope Again Collective
Handmade Earrings Sharing Stories of Women Who Have Experienced Infant Loss
Hope Again Collective is where beautiful handmade earrings tell the stories of brave women who have walked through miscarriage or infant loss. A percentage of each pair purchased is donated to give women experiencing miscarriage practical resources in their grief journey.
The Milky Mudra
Keepsale Jewelry
The Milky Mudra is professional, quality keepsake jewelry based on a concept of creating a gesture of remembrance, using your very own inclusions, including but not limited to breast milk, ashes, flowers, hair, umbilical stump, placenta, sand and more. Each piece is handmade with love and attention to detail, because this journey isn't just about us. It's about empowering women and children to be proud of who they are and how they got there. Remembering each step along the way.
Rightly Royce
Jewelry With a Purpose
Rightly Royce was created after the owner lost their son unexpectedly in 2018. Their hope is that you will find your new piece of jewelry to be an extension of yourself and as a way to express who you are and what is important to you. Rightly Royce is not only jewelry but rather jewelry with a purpose. With their world turned upside down, they knew that they had to start something in Royce’s name to give back and assist other families who lose a child.