Hand Publications

Current and back issues of Handprints are available in Adobe Portable Document (PDF) Format. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view these online issues of the newsletter and is available free of charge from Adobe for numerous computer systems.

If you would like to submit an article or poem of your own, please email our Handprints Editor.

Winter 2004 Edition:

* "Recollections of a Walk"
* "The Bonds That Survive"
* "A Father Learning to Cope"
* Editor's Column: "Reaching Out for Comfort"

Back issues of Handprints are also available by clicking here.

"Unsung Lullabies - A Parents Guide to Healing After Childbearing Loss" (HAND 1992, 2000).

A parent manual that discuss the grief process, miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, repeated loss and multiple pregnancy, impact on a relationship, sibling support, helping the bereaved, creating memories, subsequent pregnancy and more. Includes parent stories and recommended reading, Internet resources and a listing of national and Northern California support groups.
Download and print an Acrobat version of the order form for this publication.

"Health Provider's Manual for Helping After Perinatal Death" (HAND 1987).

A short but comprehensive booklet intended for professionals. Presents guidelines for supporting parents who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death or who are facing a subsequent pregnancy. Also covers the topic of support for the caregiver.