Book Review – Meeting the Needs of Parents Pregnant and Parenting after Perinatal Loss.

Book Review : My grandmother told me a story about the stillborn baby she delivered in the upstairs bedroom of our house, in the 1920’s. A part of the story that never left me was her characterization of my grandpa as a hero that night. He blocked the removal of the baby (the funeral man was waiting in the foyer) until granny woke up and could say a proper good-bye to their child. It also never left me that no one in the family or the neighborhood spoke of this death ever again. And no one ever gave a thought to the impact of this loss on the next baby to be born: my mother.