Local OC Resources

We've compiled a list of practitioners in Orange County who offer healing services for families experiencing loss. While no one service can address the entire complex experience of grieving the loss of a child, here are some therapeutic tools and resources for your healing path.

Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

Megan Joyce Wellness

Christine Sanmiquel

Home visits in Orange County
ommami.com

Megan Joyce and Christine Sanmiquel are Licensed Acupuncturists and herbalists offering an array of healing services. Their nourishing care can be so beneficial during grief and loss.

Belly Binding

Each of these lovely people offers in-home belly binding sessions to teach parents how to wrap themselves for extra physical support. A wrap is included in the service.

Nicole Green

thebirthschool.com

MiMi Lopez-Steele

sacredseedoc.com

Birth Story Listening

Virginia Bobro

vbobro.com
Through virtual Birth Story Listening sessions, Virginia offers a safe, nonjudgmental space to process the events of birth and find new insights and healing for the journey. Many grieving parents have found these sessions beneficial.

Counseling

Return to Zero HOPE

rtzhope.org
Based in Los Angeles, Return to Zero Center for Healing offers support groups, healing retreats, resources to help normalize grief after loss, resources for pregnancy after loss, referrals for psychologists and psychiatrists, and more.

Funeral Homes

Natural Grace

naturalgracefunerals.com
Natural Grace is a funeral home serving LA and Orange Counties. They specialize in natural, eco-friendly, and sensitive services including those experiencing the loss of a young child. Assisting families with needed services for the loss of a fetus or baby is very important to them, and these needed services are offered to families at little to no charge. Shari Wolf, the founder of Natural Grace, or one of her colleagues will come and personally pick up your baby. In addition, they have a special fund for families going through the loss of a baby called the "Bigtree Child Fund."

O'Connor Mortuary

oconnormortuary.com
Based in Laguna Hills, O'Connor Mortuary serves central and south Orange County. Their staff includes experts in grief theory and ritual, and they have a passion for serving families suffering the loss of a child. They offer in-hospital pick up and can come directly to your hospital room, so your baby will never have to be alone in the hospital mortuary.

Lactation (pumping and/or lactation suppression)

For more information about lactation after loss in general, look at our general resources page.

Marlee Malone-Franklin (lactation counselor)

Contact Marlee
Marlee offers holistic, non-clinical support for parents suppressing their milk supply after loss, or creating a plan to donate milk. She offers virtual appointments free of charge for families experiencing stillbirth or infant loss.

Megan Masler, IBCLC

oclactationstation.com

Réka Moravay, IBCLC

oclactationconsultant.com

Megan and Réka offer clinical lactation support for suppressing or donating milk after a loss, and serve clients in their own homes.

Remembrances

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

nowilaymedowntosleep.org
This non-profit organization provides free photography services for families experiencing pregnancy loss. Contact the greater Los Angeles area coordinator at 562.354.1530 between 7am-10pm to be connected with an on-call photographer.

Forever Yours Ultrasound

forever-yours.us
Forever Yours Ultrasound provides keepsake 2D, 3D/4D, and HD ultrasound photos. Located in Irvine, their beautiful office space is a calm and welcoming environment. Sarah, the sonographer, has a wonderful bedside manner and providing families with an opportunity to bond with their little one during the scanning process.

Forever Yours also creates custom Heartbeat Bears, which make a very special keepsake for families who have some warning that they may not be able to spend much time with their baby after birth.

OC Walk to Remember

foreverfootprints.org
The Orange County chapter of Forever Footprints holds a remembrance walk every year in October, National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

Support Groups

Return to Zero Center for Healing

rtzhope.org
Return to Zero hosts several support groups for specific situations at any given time. Groups focus on everything from pregnancy and infant loss, women of color experiencing pregnancy and infant loss, termination of a wanted pregnancy, support for grandparents, recurrent loss and infertility, pregnancy and parenting after loss, and more.

The Compassionate Friends

compassionatefriends.org
The Compassionate Friends an organization dedicated to supporting families after the death of a child. They have several Orange County chapters:

Brea
Fullerton
Newport Beach
Orange Coast/Irvine

Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support

nationalshare.org
Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support provides online resources for families enduring loss and hosts several support groups in the area:

Ladera Ranch
Long Beach
Mission Viejo
Newport Beach
Orange
Yorba Linda

Perinatal Bereavement Support Group

memorialcare.org
Long Beach Memorial Miller Children's and Women's Hospital offers a support group that meets twice a month.