Miscarriage Support

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While medical questions are the purpose of this forum, we don't want anyone to be without other support. You are not alone when it comes pregnancy loss. The best places to find emotional and social support on this topic are located in the Grief and Loss Section of the INCIID Forums
The forums which INCIIDer's find most helpful for pregnancy loss include:

Emotional Issues with Lizzy O'Donnell

Grief and Loss

A link to the Memorial Gardens

The "Miscarriage Manual" by Elizabeth Carney

Other helpful documents on INCIID:

• IVIg THERAPY TEMPLATE LETTER:
  IVig (intravenous immunoglobulin) is an expensive treatment for both implantation failure as well as multiple miscarriages resulting from reproductive immunological complications. Here is a pre-treatment sample letter for medical necessity or a post treatment appeal for use of this very expensive medication.
  
• Fordham Study - Emtional Impact of Multiple Miscarriages on Men
  
• Guidelines for Funeral Directors (Infant Death and Neonatal Loss
  These are guidelines set in place for funeral directors providing care to the family who is experiencing perinatal loss,neonatal death SIDS or other infant death.
  
• IVIg Trial
  A 1995 study evaluating the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of individuals experiencing unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss.
• If Only It Were September
  A poem written by a grieving mother.