Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss

by Amanda Ross-White, Lindsay Henke (Foreword by)

Overview

Awarded Second Place in American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year for Consumer Health 2017!

You've got What to Expect When You're Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you've been pregnant before, and didn't get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this is the pregnancy guide for you. Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss gives you a month-by-month survival guide to a pregnancy that is different from the others. If you're worried and concerned about losing another baby, but also joyful and cautiously excited about what is to come, this book will give you solid medical information tailored to your very real concerns! Written by a mother who has had both stillborn twins and two successful rainbow pregnancies, with guidance from the latest research on pregnancy after a loss, this guide will help you manage your anxiety as you anticipate the arrival of your rainbow child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995057203
Publisher:	Amanda Ross-White
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Amanda Ross-White is the proud mother of four beautiful children, including her twin boys Nate and Sam, who were stillborn in 2007. She is eternally grateful to watch her rainbow children, daughter Rebecca and son Alex, grow around her. Since joining the sad world of the babylost, she has become dedicated to furthering research into stillbirth and neonatal death, as well as the unique parenting and relationship challenges for babylost mothers. In her day job, she helps connect people to the medical and health information they need, and sees the need for better communication between babylost mothers and their health care providers. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Western Ontario with her MLIS and in 2000 from McGill University. Since 2004, she has worked at Queen's University as the Nursing Librarian, where she teaches information literacy to both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. Her research interests are on systematic reviews and the searching, retrieval and evaluation of research literature.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements i

Foreword v

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Trying Again 7

Chapter 3 I'm Pregnant 23

Chapter 4 Your Early Pregnancy 32

Chapter 5 Weeks 9-13 41

Chapter 6 Weeks 14-18 54

Chapter 7 Weeks 19-24 66

Chapter 8 Weeks 25-29 78

Chapter 9 Weeks 30-36 87

Chapter 10 Weeks 37-40 97

Chapter 11 Baby's Here 107

Chapter 12 Just for Fathers 115

References 127

Editorial Reviews

"Amanda Ross-White takes us into the worlds of six courageous mamas and gives us hope by following them through their pregnancies after loss. A dedicated researcher, Amanda combines her personal experience with evidence-based
research into creating this much-needed book for the mom pregnant again after a loss."

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