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Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Revised Edition: Surviving the Death of Your Baby » (REV)

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Authors: Deborah Davis
ISBN-13: 9781555913021, ISBN-10: 1555913024
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: February 1996
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Deborah Davis


Deborah Davis is the author of The Secret of the Seal (Crown) and My Brother Has AIDS (a Jean Karl Book, Atheneum) and the editor of You Look Too Young to Be a Mom: Teen Mothers Speak Out on Love, Learning, and Success (Perigee, Penguin). She lives in Berkeley, California, with her family. For more information visit deborahdavisauthor.com.

Book Synopsis

Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1A Parent's Lonely Grief1
Ch. 2Grieving and Emotional Recovery9
Ch. 3Physical Recovery21
Ch. 4The Early Months32
Ch. 5Affirming Your Baby48
Ch. 6Painful Feelings66
Ch. 7Resolution of Grief81
Ch. 8Making Peace with Agonizing Decisions97
Ch. 9Especially for Fathers111
Ch. 10You and Your Partner124
Ch. 11Your Family136
Ch. 12Support Networks154
Ch. 13The Subsequent Pregnancy: Trying Again176
Ch. 14Coping during Subsequent Pregnancy and Birth191
Ch. 15Raising Subsequent Children205
Ch. 16Protective Parenting220
Ch. 17Remembering Your Baby and Moving On235
Appendix A - A Note to Caregivers241
Appendix B - Journal Writing: A Tool for Grieving, Healing and Growth247
Appendix C - Resources for Bereaved Parents251
Bibliography257
Index263

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