Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth

Description

When a pregnancy fails, grieving parents often wonder why no one mentioned it could happen. Yet one in every four women will experience miscarriage or stillbirth. Mother of two and journalist Zoe Taylor has survived repeated pregnancy losses. In this book, she shines a light on every aspect of this topic: The experience of pregnancy loss and the desire for answers; What experts know about causes and risk factors, and new areas of research; Strategies for facing a world that poorly understands pregnancy loss; Trying again - pregnancy after a loss; Deciding to stop trying; Tips on how to support people going through pregnancy loss. Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth is a book of courage, hope and survival. It will help all people touched by loss, including parents, partners, friends, family, researchers, doctors and carers.

Zoe Taylor is a UK-trained journalist with over ten years' experience as a health writer. She was Health Reporter for the London Evening Standard then joined the Daily Telegraph, where she writes the popular weekly column Mum's Word . She lives near Sydney with her husband and two children. This is her first book.