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Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 78 votes)
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78 reviews
April 17,2025
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This book was helpful for affirming the importance of grieving and feeling one's emotions after loss.

Two disappointments, there seemed to be a strong emphasis on how to parent living children. Or maybe I'm just over sensitive to not having a living child...

And I hate the use of the phrase "pregnancy interruption." Guard your heart if you feel similarly.
April 17,2025
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This book really helped me sort through my feelings about the loss of my baby. If anyone who finds themselves dealing with this type of loss, this book was the best I have read on the subject.
April 17,2025
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My lifeline when my daughter died, stillborn at 32 weeks. Writing in the margins, underlining, circling, stained with my tears- this book helped me through my darkest days.
April 17,2025
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THis is a book that you truly do not want to recommend because it means someone else suffered the loss of a baby. It really helped me a lot. I would recommend it. I'm looking for the more Christian alternative though...
April 17,2025
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If you have to read this book then I am sorry for your loss.
This book was recommended to me after we lost our son. To be honest I didn't think anyone could understand the pain I was going through, but this book does and is quite helpful. The excerpts are from people who too have dealt with the pain I deal and will deal with.


April 17,2025
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I read this book after the death of our little baby Hailee. She survived 9 days. This book helped me a great deal and I would recommend it to anyone who has lost a baby.
April 17,2025
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this book was my survival manual after my baby died. the tone is so genuine. i love how she includes the grieving of both parents and how she sensitively covers just about every way you can lose a baby. perfect for those who have lost a baby or people who want to help those who have lost a baby.
April 17,2025
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A tough read and a look into the realities of child loss, though miscarriage was not touched on much. I read this for doula education, and while not strictly educational, feel it was important. This book would also be helpful for parents who are living the experience.
April 17,2025
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Great book for anyone who has ever experienced pregnancy or infant loss.
April 17,2025
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This book was essential in helping me cope after I lost my twin boys. I will probably read it a few times. One of the best books on child loss that I have read (and I have read many). After I had my boys, I grabbed every book I could find on the child loss to help me. I highly recommend this book if you are dealing with the loss of a child.
April 17,2025
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Gets it just right. A book that understands. All of it.
Covers practically every emotional hitch along the way.
I would have loved a section about subsequent pregnancy losses, though, its so central and I feel its missing very much, thus 4 out of 5.
April 17,2025
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Geared towards couples and discusses multiples and surviving twins. Wouldn't recommend for single mothers. Not sure if I'd recommend it for someone who didn't have multiples.
Great quotes from mothers and fathers with losses.
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