If you have a friend navigating a miscarriage or pregnancy loss, we know it can feel like nothing you say or do can take away from their pain. During the holiday season, it can feel even more challenging to be supportive of their loss—as they navigate a million little triggers, from family photos and cards to the uptick in pregnancy announcements. One of the best and most meaningful ways to show that you are there for them is through a thoughtful and compassionate gift that can encourage comfort and healing.
Whether it’s their very first experience with this type of loss or they’ve been through it before, the right gesture can make them feel less alone in their grief. If you’re wondering how to help, we’ve rounded up a guide of the most supportive gifts for your friend going through pregnancy loss—each carefully chosen to offer a little extra love, comfort and understanding to help them through this difficult time.
Willow & Ivy Press Sympathy Cards
These cards are a beautiful and heartfelt way to show your support and love for your friend going through pregnancy loss. Carefully and thoughtfully designed to offer comfort during one of the hardest times of your friend’s life, they have gentle and sensitive messages unique for grief. These cards can help you show your support in love in a simple, yet personal way.
Why we love it:
- Simple designs
- Heartfelt messages
- Tailored for grief and loss
Price: $6
Bodily Care For Miscarriage Box
This miscarriage care box is a deeply thoughtful gift designed to provide your friend with comfort and support as they go through this tough experience. With essentials like a remembrance bracelet, a support book, a turmeric tea blend and more, it can help provide physical and emotional care and comfort.
Why we love it:
- Items in the box offer tools to process the experience
- Remembrance bracelets are handmade by artisans in India
- Offers a book to help your friend navigate the loss
Price: $90
Bodily Remembrance Bracelet
This remembrance bracelet is a way for your friend to memorialize their loss. The Olive Branch is a symbol of resilience, strength and capacity for regrowth. It provides a tangible way to remember and honor their baby.
Why we love it:
- Personal and thoughtful
- Comes in two sizes
- Tangible way to remember and honor their loss
Price: $25
Hello Postpartum Pregnancy Loss Support Box
This box is a beautifully curated collection of items that are designed to offer your friend comfort, care and love during this difficult time. With items like teas, cozy socks, an angel wing bracelet, a journal and more, they can navigate through their loss with healing in mind.
Why we love it:
- A variety of items to help the healing journey
- Option to add organic breast milk pads if their loss was after 14 weeks
- Iron boosting tea to help support iron levels after bleeding
Price: $99
Leaves of Leisure Four Seasons Bundle of Tea
If you know a friend navigating pregnancy loss, trying to find moments of calm is incredibly challenging. And though time does help with healing, they will miss their baby every single day, through all of the seasons. This appropriately-named tea collection features blends thoughtfully created with healing in mind to soothe the mind and body. Taking a small moment to just make a cup of tea and sit next to them can be very soothing and comforting for your friend.
Why we love it:
- A tea for every season
- 60 bags total
- Option to include a custom note
Price: $68.40
Forged Flare Mother’s Angels Ornament Figurines
These ornaments are a meaningful and beautiful way for your friend to honor her pregnancy loss. Each piece is carefully and thoughtfully designed to represent the loss between your friend and her angel baby. They’re delicate but powerful symbols of remembrance, strength and healing. Whether she hangs it on her tree each holiday as a memory of the baby she lost or hangs it at her home for the sun to shine through, it’ll be a beautiful reminder of her love.
Why we love it:
- Plenty of designs to choose from
- Tangible way to represent her loss
- Handcrafted in Texas
Price: $45
Mikutowski Woodworking Remembrance Boxes
These husband and wife designed boxes are a great way for your friend to store her keepsakes of her lost baby. From things like sonogram pictures to remembrance jewelry, these carefully handcrafted boxes are a way to store cherished memories of her lost baby.
Why we love it:
- Handcrafted
- Plenty of designs to choose from
- Option for custom messages
Price: $45
Miscarriage Grief Journal
Having to deal with the emotions and grief of pregnancy loss is hard. One ritual that could help your friend is to write down her feelings. This journal, with 48 prompts tailored to the experience of healing from a miscarriage, is a powerful tool for self-reflection, allowing your loved one to sit with her feelings and process.
Why we love it:
- 48 different prompts
- Helps with processing emotions
- Option to go through the prompts at her own pace
Price: $13
Haoze ‘Forget Me Not’ Seed Necklace
This miscarriage necklace is a beautiful and sentimental way for your friend to honor her pregnancy loss and the memory of her baby. With a ‘forget me not’ flower seed to represent miscarriage and a poem to read upon opening, this gift can help your friend represent the love she has for her lost baby.
Why we love it:
- Available in different colors
- High quality material
- Comes with a forget me not seed message card
Price: $13
Deepsoon Electric Heating Pad
While miscarriage comes with great emotional pain, it also can come with physical pain. If your friend is going through any cramping or pain, this heating pad can provide gentle relief. It’s also a great way to offer warm comfort during the healing process.
Why we love it:
- Soothes physical discomfort
- Available in different colors and sizes
- Auto shut off
Price: $18
Miscarriage and Infant Loss Ornament
Finding ways to honor the loss of your baby can be difficult, especially during the holiday season where everyone is bombarding you with questions or unwanted advice. A subtle yet meaningful way to honor your lost baby is with this ornament. Each year, you can place it on your tree in their honor.
Why we love it:
- Created by a family who has felt the same pain
- Comes with a story card about losing a child
- Subtle design
Price: $22.50
Due to Joy Baby Loss Gift Set for Couples
If you’re dealing with a pregnancy loss, it can be hard to feel not alone, even if you’re with your partner. This miscarriage book bundle can help a grieving mom or dad feel less alone in their healing journey. The set comes with two books, resource cards, a pour over latte and two tea bags with honey.
Why we love it:
- Has books tailored to a man’s grief
- Resource cards with more picks for the mother and father
- Turmeric, ginger, & Malabar peppercorn tea
Price: $60
Artsy Voiceprint Night Sky Baby Memorial
One of the best joys many parents who’ve lost their baby remember is the first time they heard and saw their baby’s heartbeat. WIth this memorial, you can upload your sonogram and it will be turned into a beautiful night sky with a customizable message at the bottom. It’s a simple yet incredibly meaningful way to honor and remember your baby.
Why we love it:
- Completely customizable
- Comes in many different sizes
- Free shipping
Price: $32.50
Nurtured 9 Miscarriage Care and Support Box
This box was thoughtfully created to support a mom who is recovering from her miscarriage experience. With everything from cozy slippers and a warm candle to yummy snacks and a card with resources for miscarriage support, this box can help you feel comforted and supported through your healing.
Why we love it:
- Completely customizable
- Comes in many different sizes
- Free shipping
Price: $130
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Esha Minhas is a third-year student at Northeastern University studying Journalism and Political Science. She's currently the editorial and social intern for Mila & Jo Media. Esha is also the Deputy Sports Editor for The Huntington News and covers Northeastern men's hockey. When she's not busy with work or school, you can find her at the gym, baking for her friends and family and watching anything sports related.
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