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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min., 25 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For most parents and families, pregnancy is a happy time filled with joyful anticipation and plans for the future. Losing a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death can cause feelings of shock, sadness and despair, and impact on every aspect of life. This 'Speaking from experience' DVD features seven people who share their experiences of losing a baby. It was produced in partnership with SANDS VIC.
3) Absolution
Author
Language
English
Description
"American women— American wives— have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be 'helpmeets' to their ambitious husbands...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I Had a Miscarriage is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--
"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood. Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto, Selvaratnam recounts her emotional journey through multiple miscarriages after the age of 37. Her doctor told her she still "had time," but Selvaratnam found little reliable and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi, her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant, who reveals the resilience,...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists--Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things...
14) Conjurer
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After losing their newborn baby, an art photographer and his wife move to a farmhouse to recover, only to learn that the local legends regarding their home being haunted are true.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Fox Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest scientific research reveals that egg quality has a powerful impact on how long it takes to get pregnant and the risk of miscarriage. Poor egg quality is in fact the single most important cause of age-related infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and failed IVF cycles. Based on a vast array of scientific research, It Starts with the Egg provides a comprehensive program for improving egg quality in three months, with specific advice tailored...
17) Coping with infertility, miscarriage, and neonatal loss: finding perspective and creating meaning
Author
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pregnancy loss can be devastating, regardless of whether it is early or late in pregnancy or in the short period after a baby is born. In many instances, similar emotions are experienced when a couple learns that their fertility treatments were unsuccessful. Here, well-known psychologist Amy Wenzel applies the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy a thoroughly-researched approach for treating mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and stress-related...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in America, with its expectation of carefully planned, assiduously tended, and emotionally precious pregnancies.
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
xi, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than a quarter of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Experiencing this loss, you may wonder why it happened, what happens next and what it means for your future. You may also feel incredibly alone. For more than 20 years, Dr. Kate has taken care of those navigating the physical and emotional pain of pregnancy loss. After experiencing two miscarriages of her own, she wrote [this book] to offer others the same compassionate conversation she has with...
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