[.ca] Pregnancy After A Loss (ISBN 0425170470)

Comfort:
To start, I want to say I would recommend this book to everyone who has suffered a loss and is pregnant. C. Lanham covers every single feeling you might have and talks about them honestly. After receiving several self help books, along with advice from people who had NO idea what I was going through, this book offered me some comfort. I hated every book I read about infant loss and I resented every person who thought they had something wonderfully new to help my husband and I through our loss. After almost a year of trying for another baby, we finally got pregnant -- along with this pregnancy was fear and the grieving did not automatically stop. I did not suddenly want to see other's babies. I had many feelings and emotions, and this book was amazing. During our loss, I was tired of being told we were "normal" to feel the way we did. That was of NO comfort to me. Suddenly, being told I was normal when I had many strange thoughts and feelings (at this stage... after finally being pregnant again) and being told I was normal WAS a comfort to me. Thank you Carol Lanham for writing this book and helping me through a difficult time. Even my parents don't understand about what I am feeling and how I am acting. I have asked them to read parts of this book to help them understand. I would recommend it to everyone.

a lifesaver!:
After delivering stillborn twin boys at 21 weeks, I needed a guide to bring me through my next pregnancy. This book was a lifesaver. The author has suffered a fullterm stillbirth, so she truly relates the feelings that we go through during our subsequent pregnancies. There is detailed info on when to get pregnant again, high risk pregnancies and each trimester. Best of all, everyone interviewed for the book has gone on to deliver a healthy baby after suffering some sort of loss, which brought great hope to me. This is a must read for everyone in my subsequent pregnancy support group!

A Guide to Pregnancy After a Misscarriage, Stilbirth or Infa:
THIS BOOK WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK. I HAVE RECOMMEDED IT TO SEVERAL PEOPLE. FIVE YEARS AGO FEB. OF 1999 WE LOST OUR FIRST CHILD HER NAME WAS ANZLETTE MARIE 2/19/99. SHE WEIGHTED 1LB 3OZ. SHE LIVED FOR 1 HR & 30MINS BEFORE SHE BECAME A TINY ANGEL. I HAD NO IDEA ON HOW WE WERE GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS BUT WE DID. WE NOW HAVE A BEAUTIFUL 3 1/2 YR OLD HER NAME IS FAITH. SHE IS THE JOY OF OUR LIVES AND I OWE IT TO THE LORD JESUS,CAROL LANHAM AN THE WONDERFUL WOMEN WHO TOLD THE STORIES OF THERE CHILDREN. I WAS TOLD TO READ THIS BOOK AFTER A SUPPORT MEETING IT TOOK A WHILE FOR ME TO PURCHASE, BUT AFTER I BEGAN READING IT I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT CAROL LANHAM, VICTORIA IN TEXAS

Pretty Good Book:
I read this book right after I gave birth to a baby at 22 weeks pregnant. I had an incompetant cervix. I thought the book was good in that it spoke a lot to emotions etc. however I was hoping for more information about cerclage and effectiveness of it and typically what happens etc.

Awesome:
This book was an incredible walk through the grief of losing a child and the hope of having another one. It didn't judge or recommend one path it just gave the reader ways to make her own decisions and examine her own feelings.