Authors: Deborah Davis
ISBN-13: 9781555913021, ISBN-10: 1555913024
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: February 1996
Edition: REV
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.
Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Ch. 1 | A Parent's Lonely Grief | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Grieving and Emotional Recovery | 9 |
Ch. 3 | Physical Recovery | 21 |
Ch. 4 | The Early Months | 32 |
Ch. 5 | Affirming Your Baby | 48 |
Ch. 6 | Painful Feelings | 66 |
Ch. 7 | Resolution of Grief | 81 |
Ch. 8 | Making Peace with Agonizing Decisions | 97 |
Ch. 9 | Especially for Fathers | 111 |
Ch. 10 | You and Your Partner | 124 |
Ch. 11 | Your Family | 136 |
Ch. 12 | Support Networks | 154 |
Ch. 13 | The Subsequent Pregnancy: Trying Again | 176 |
Ch. 14 | Coping during Subsequent Pregnancy and Birth | 191 |
Ch. 15 | Raising Subsequent Children | 205 |
Ch. 16 | Protective Parenting | 220 |
Ch. 17 | Remembering Your Baby and Moving On | 235 |
Appendix A - A Note to Caregivers | 241 | |
Appendix B - Journal Writing: A Tool for Grieving, Healing and Growth | 247 | |
Appendix C - Resources for Bereaved Parents | 251 | |
Bibliography | 257 | |
Index | 263 |