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Top Amazon Review
Yes, I will survive the death of my baby. My baby died in July 2006. I guess like many parents I felt that I would never survive her death and I grieved and mourned for many months. I believe now that I will mourn my daughter's loss forever.
I have read many books about stillbirth since my baby's death, but I found this one to be particularly helpful. It's easy to read and I think is great whether you're Australian (like me), American, English or from anywhere else. The book deals with experiences of loss, and those losses are the same whereever you live. I would recommend this book to any parent who has gone through the trauma of losing a precious baby son or daughter.
Customer Review 1
Easy-to-read language. Our baby's heart stopped beating at 4 days past my due date, after a perfect text book pregnancy. I was already scheduled to be induced the next day. No reason was ever found for his death despite an autopsy - my son was just perfect. His death remains incomprehensible.
I have read several books on this topic, and I found this one to be written in particularly easy-to-read language. It contains parents' stories and covers grief and grieving, another pregnancy and another baby. Like several books covering this topic, I think it will be a book to go back to in the future and read again.
Customer Review 2
Knowing you are not alone through your darkest days. When we went for our checkup at 35 weeks, nothing could have prepared us for the shock of finding that our much loved and wanted son would have no heartbeat, and had died in the womb. Our world stopped!! There is so much to go through, organise and take in at a time like this, and so many people offering help and advise, but some people (like us) prefer to grieve in private and find it difficult to reach out and ask for that help.Thank goodness for this book. It shares with you the real experiences of parents in this situation, what they went through at the time, their thoughts after a period of time and how they felt when looking back, there are also chapters on the grief and grieving process, and possible medical causes to what has happened when you constantly ask WHY? and was it my fault? At times, you feel that you could drown in your grief, it feels so raw and that you are alone and nobody understands the hurt inside, but this book shows that you are not alone, and reading other peoples personal experiences lets you know that your thoughts and feelings are perfectly normal and shared by others who have unfortunately been in the same situation.I DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD HAVE COPED AT TIMES WITHOUT THIS BOOK
Customer Review 3
When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillb. I read this book and it's very overwhelming to know that there are also these parents who grieved so much with their babies lost. i lost my daughter too and the book was a gift from my husband believing it'll make it help me ease not all but a small amount of pain inside and its does it really does a great relief to know i'm not alone grieving of my daughter's death.i love this book so much and i also reccomend it to tose mothers and fathers who lost their child. this book is really amazing and i appreciate every bit of it.
Customer Review 4
Not a freak. My daughter, Rhiannon, was stillborn on 18 March 1997. It was the day my life stopped. No reason was ever discovered why. This book explained I am not a freak and unfortunately I am not alone. It is hard to describe how much this book helped. eg. it suggested taking photographs. I am so glad I did, they are such a comfort. In the years since, I have had poor concentration, this is the only book I've been able to read. If you need this book, I can understand the torment you are in, it is a torment NO ONE should go through, but this book will help.
