Product Description

Anyone who has been touched by miscarriage will want to read and share this book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #662407 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon.com Review
Some losses are particularly hard to bear, partly because we have no formal rites to grieve them. Miscarriage marks the death of dreams as surely as it does the death of a baby months before it was due. "We counted our lucky stars and you were it," one woman in this collection writes sadly. Another notes, "You can publicly mourn someone others have met, someone people were expecting, someone who looks like a child. I mourn children who most people never knew about, never expected, who never looked like children." These stories and poems are anguished and touching. Paradoxically, they offer comfort to anyone who has suffered a miscarriage.

From Library Journal
About 20 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Bereaved parents and their families are left wondering what went wrong and desperately seeking emotional support. This collection of poignant real-life stories gives reassurance and hope to those who have suffered the loss of an unborn child. Through personal essays, poetry, and journal entries from 50 contributors, including four men and both editors, experiences are shared in the hope that the reader will gain valuable insight about how mothers and fathers feel when a miscarriage has taken place. Lists of resources and further reading are included. Although targeted to a limited audience, this book is a worthwhile purchase for self-help psychology collections in large public libraries. Those interested in an approach that includes medical information should try A Woman Doctor's Guide to Miscarriage (LJ 9/15/96).?Elizabeth Goeters, DeKalb Coll. Learning Resources Ctr., Dunwoody, Ga.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Miscarriage takes so much away from expectant parents: their baby, their sense of control over life, perhaps even their fertility, the opportunity to become parents, and their aspirations for their baby and themselves. The bereaved parents who contributed stories, journal entries, and poems to this anthology demonstrate how they used their memories, feelings, and thoughts to work through the grief they feel over losing their baby. Their powerful words--raw, angry, resigned, sad--both help readers understand the writers' experiences and enable readers to better support friends and family who confront similar losses. Even the briefest accounts here are moving, and the more probing entries are remarkably powerful in their evocation of the harsh realities of an unborn baby's death. Kathryn Carpenter

Customer Reviews

It's comforting to know I'm not alone in my grief
This book was very helpful in allowing me to cope with my miscarriage. I have read our books regarding miscarriage that we very technical, leaving me feeling worse about my lose, this book is different. It's stories of grief have been a comfort to me, putting words to my feelings. It has also helped me communicate my feeling to my husband, who didn't quite understand why it's been so hard for me to get over it and just move on. Anyone who has expereinced a miscarrriage should read this book.

Deeply healing
After the loss of my first pregnancy, I found this book. I was touched to my soul by the pain I found mirrored in the stories I read. I felt less lonely and more hopeful afterwards.

I'm not alone
I am so thankful that I found this book! Although no one story exactly matched my experience with my miscarriage, I could relate to portions of almost every story, so that instead of feeling alone and lost I felt comforted, heard and understood. (I was doubly comforted by the fact that many of these women were from my geographical area!) I'm slowly coming to grips with the technical aspects of my miscarriage, but dealing with the emotions has been hard. Reading others' stories has been remarkably healing for me and has encourage me to share my story with others as well. I very highly recommend this book for those struggling with the emotional roller-coaster of miscarriage.