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Wingate Packard, The Seattle Times, August 5, 1999 says:
This is a comforting, thoughtful approach to the excruciating questions
that grief churns up -- "How will I go on? What is the meaning
of this child's death?" -- without minimizing the loss of innocence
and lifelong sorrow felt by survivors. This is the best book on
parental grief that I have seen.
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In 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz published his translation of an obscure
Tibetan Nyingma text and called it the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient
text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once religious,
scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories
from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the
reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually
to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of
a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation,
karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and
phowa teach us how to face death constructively. As a result, life
becomes much richer. Like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Sogyal Rinpoche
opens the door to a full experience of death. It is up to the reader
to walk through. --Brian Bruya, as quoted on Amazon.com
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When a Baby Dies: A Handbook for Healing and Helping is written
to help families heal and provide support to healthcare professionals.
Revised in 1998, the book covers individual stories of pregnancy
and perinatal loss. There are specific chapters on miscarriage,
ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, newborn death and loss in a multiple
gestation pregnancy. Working from the fact that grief is normal,
the book also addresses the family issues that occur as each person
grieves differently. Additional chapters address the roles of individual
healthcare professionals and include checklists which are helpful
in caring for bereaved families.
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Creative Acts of Healing: After a Baby Dies is a first person longitudinal
account of loss, mourning, grief, healing and recovery. The book
offers the reader a source to recognize the slow process of grief
and to discover that healing can't be rushed, but may be aided.
Creative Acts of Healing provides inspiration to celebrate anniversaries
of the baby's birth, Mother's Day and holidays following the loss.
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Parents who suffer the death of a child must endure excruciating
grief, and they often need help to reach the final stage of healing
and renewal. Writing from personal experience and with professional
expertise, Dr. Catherine M. Sanders provides a healing guide for
one of life's most devastating experiences. Dr. Sanders explains
the grieving process with compassion and insight. She also advises
other family members and friends in how to assist the grieving parents
and to cope with their own sense of loss.
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Christian Oriented: The publisher, Loyola Press , November 13, 1998
Comfort and hope for parents after infant death. Nearly a million
parents suffer a miscarriage or infant death every year. Theirs
can be a lonely, quiet grief--with many deep emotions experienced
but not easily expressed. This collection of more than a hundred
short meditations beautifully interweaves these overwhelming and
very real feelings of bereaved parents with scripture passages that
provide comfort, direction, and a sense of hope.
"The book features short reflections--many of them hers--interspersed
with Scriptures from the Bible. There is a section for mothers and
one for fathers. The book is intended to be poignant and uplifting,
to make those who have experienced such sadness remember and knowingly
nod their heads and realise that someone else has felt the same
misery. It is intended to help the rest of us understand, at least
a little.' --Bill Lohmann, RICHMOND-TIMES DISPATCH, 10/06/98
"'O'Keefe Lafser originally wrote " An Empty Cradle,
A Full Heart" for a neice who lost a child. She alternates
reflections about the intense loss--drawn from her personal experience
and from conversations with others who have lost children--with
Scripture passages that echo the parent's sorrow, but also offer
comfort, direction, and a sense of hope." --Heidi Schlumpf,
NEW WORLD 10/11/98
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This book contains a wealth of helpful information for families
after the death of a child. The lack of societal support and the
overriding feelings of isolation and debilitating guilt/grief exacerbates
a parent's disconnectedness. This book helps to make reality more
clear after the tragedy of a child's death. It teaches skills necessary
to integrate our pain into the day to day life we once knew as "normal."
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From Kirkus Reviews
In this comforting, thorough second edition of the 1993 guide for
those who have suffered the loss of a pregnancy, Kohn, a social
worker (and founder of the National Council of Jewish Women's Pregnancy
Loss Support Program), and Moffit (a lay counselor for that program)
sympathetically address the full range of tragedies, including miscarriage,
ectopic pregnancy, losses following a medical crisis, stillbirth,
newborn death, and having to end a pregnancy because the baby's
or mother's life or health is compromised. Using the term pregnancy
loss to ``embrace all losses that occur whenever a wanted pregnancy
has ended,'' they begin by explaining the special nature of grief
that follows losing a baby. ``No matter what kind of pregnancy you
experienced,'' they counsel, ``you are probably unprepared for the
anguish you feel . . . you have lost a baby who was a real part
of you and your hoped-for future.'' The authors consider the ways
the experience of loss differs for mothers and fathers, the ways
the relationship may be changed, and the medical, practical, and
emotional issues for each type of pregnancy loss. ``The Response
of Others'' considers the reactions of family and friends, and helping
other children and grieving grandparents cope. Finally, ``Special
Circumstances'' addresses career issues, infertility, and the possibility
of subsequent pregnancies. A helpful update reflecting changes in
both medical care and the social climate.
-- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Christian oriented: Support book for coping and healing after the
death of a child, loss of a pregnancy.
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For those who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth--or those
who have elected to terminate a pregnancy--the experience has all
too often been minimized and misunderstood. According to author
and psychotherapist Kim Kluger-Bell, pregnancy loss can be described
with one word: unspeakable. In this remarkable and moving psychological
study, Kluger-Bell examines the "shadow side" of being
pregnant--the unspoken grief of losing a pregnancy before birth
through miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth.
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Christian oriented: We can debate abortion all we want, but the
fact remains: there is pain involved in abortion. Much more than
just a work on forgiveness, this is a much needed handbook for identifying
the characteristics of post-abortion syndrome, as well as a spiritual
resource for coming to terms with your situation and finding hope.
This is a touching story that begins in pain and ends in healing.
Readers will learn that spiritual and emotional healing is not only
possible, it is God's way of restoring us.
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From Booklist
Los Angeles-based psychotherapists DePuy and Dovitch provide much-needed
guidance for those dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder after
abortion--an emotional wound often felt years afterward. Richly
accompanied by sidebars quoting from Maya Angelou, Marilyn Monroe,
Ayn Rand, Lily Tomlin, Margaret Sanger, and other notables, their
text initially addresses the reality of pregnancy and the myths
surrounding motherhood and then details the procedure of abortion
from clinical as well as emotional standpoints. The second section
examines the aftermath of abortion, giving special emphasis to feelings
of guilt and anger and to seeking forgiveness. Acceptance is the
focus of the third and final part, with DePuy and Dovitch discussing
the slow and ongoing process of transformation and healing. Throughout,
the book features exercises designed to help women conflicted over
having had abortions reclaim their bodies and achieve a state of
peace. -Whitney Scott, as quoted on Amazon.com
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