Hope After Heartbreak: Pregnancy After Loss Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe pregnancy after loss — after early miscarriage, ectopic and molar pregnancy, termination for medical reasons, stillbirth and the death of a baby in the weeks after birth. Writers describe the positive test met with fear rather than joy, news kept from almost everyone until halfway, and the scan room entered again with a hand already gripping a partner's. There is the search for a reason: blood tests after recurrent miscarriage, a thyroid problem finally found, lupus, a cervical stitch, nightly progesterone pessaries, and the parents whose every result came back normal and who never got an answer. Writers describe the mechanics of an anxious pregnancy — extra monitoring, counting kicks, home heartbeat monitors that soothed some and fed panic in others, a planned caesarean chosen after stillbirth — and births that brought rainbow babies, twins and one arrival in the back of a car. Later chapters hold fathers and non-birthing mothers, two dads and a surrogate, grandparents learning to listen, couples' counselling, people still trying, and those whose next pregnancy ended in loss too.

Who it's for

For anyone pregnant or trying again after a loss, the partners and grandparents worrying alongside them, and midwives and doctors who care for families in the pregnancy that comes next.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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