Product Description

Loss is universal. Each of our responses to it is unique. After Cynthia Baseman delivered a stillborn daughter in 1995, she embarked on a journey of healing and a search to find happiness and meaning in life again. Writing letters to her daughter and drawing strength from the natural world became the basis of her recovery and a tool to manage the strain on her marriage. In Love, Mom she shares what happened to her and offers hope to those that find themselves grieving for a loved one.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #905734 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Cynthia Baseman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Baseman completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television where she was awarded a Focus Award. Later, she worked as a motion picture and television development executive selling stories to studios and networks including TNT, ABC and NBC. Baseman has published several articles in national magazines and has written and edited the book, Santa Barbara Trail Riders. Since 1998, Baseman has been teaching writers workshops for children and encouraging them to keep journals as she has since she was a young girl. Baseman lives with her husband and two sons in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

Very real, thoughtful - only someone who has been through this could write something so powerful
I bought this book and could not put it down. I lost my son at 38 weeks this past July 4 days before he was to be born. Needless to say my world as I knew it was gone for awhile. It is the most devastating thing to have to go through in life. I also feel what is devastating is the feelings of other people letting you down while you are grieving. In Cynthia's book she told her story like it could have been my story.

I truly believe that only a person who has experienced such a loss can understand the grief of losing a child. Cynthia goes through her journey telling the good and bad. This book really made me feel like I was not crazy for feeling the way I did-do. The one thing that really helped me through all this was reaching out to people who have experienced this because it is the hope I needed to pull through. Highly recommended.

EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER
I lost my Baby Girl at 37 1/2 weeks on April 9th 2007 a few weeks before her scheduled delivery on Mothers Day due to a cord accident just like Cynthia's Angel Samantha. She was my second little princess. I am forever changed. I have been searching for other woman who had experienced the same loss or a support group at the hospital and have been unsuccessful. So desperately needing something I purchased this book thinking "ah it would be like the 6 others I have about Stillbirth and Loss" and oh was I wrong.

I have cried through each page of this book because It is as if she is speaking the words of my own personal journey. I experienced almost all she has except I haven't healed or begun to heal yet. This book came in the mail on 9/1/2007 and I have already finished the entire book. I could not put it down. Just to know that my feelings are natural and I am not the only one that has had just a heart break brings light to my forever darkened days.

I am in school right now working for a degree in Victim Advocacy that will enable me to work at hospitals to speak to woman that have lost babies unexpectedly during their stay at the hospitals and this is one of the books I will be giving to them as their companions. In my week stay at the hospital there was no nurse or doctor that had experienced what I had so having someone that knew what it really felt like would have been a joy.

I would recommend this book to any woman that has to join our grieving mothers club. I never thought I would be one and I never knew it happened so often. It breaks my heart but I feel I got a calling out it. Hopefully I can heal like Cynthia did. My heart is forever shattered and I will never be the same. I love my baby Girl always and forever.

Emotional
This book is very well written. I think that any book that makes you go through emotions, it's a very good book. I cried as I read it.

I truly recommend this book. Once you start reading it you won't be able to stop until you finish.