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Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbearing Losses
Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience. American Baby's Childbirth Educator
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
August 30th 1984
by Praeger
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This book is truly a treasure. What I found most compelling was the observation that we live in a "death-denying" culture and that most people are expected to grieve their loss for a certain amount of time and then get on with their lives as before. Ended Beginnings offers a different approach, which is a holistic path to true healing, at the end of which comes not normal life as before, but a sort of "new normal" which incorporates that grief into the fabric of life. Anyone who has lost a child...more
Jan 31, 2008
Art
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
those who experienced childbearing loss and their friends/ family
Recommended to Art by:
Juanita Nyce
Shelves:
marriage-family
I knew I was going to like this book right from the preface, when Nancy Cohen says "In my dream, I found a safe and loving place where all people who have ever lost a ... baby ... or a dream of their own, are together". She goes on to say "In my dream, all these people are helped to mend their hearts, revitalize their soul, restore their spirit."
Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo weave together so many stories of childbearing loss, and pay special attention to those who also experienced gri...more
Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo weave together so many stories of childbearing loss, and pay special attention to those who also experienced gri...more
I really love their philosophies of experiencing and accepting grief, which I believe can be transferred to other areas of life as well. It certainly is helping me relate to friends who have lost children and I highly recommend it.
I'm anxious to read this book because my mother-in-law wrote a chapter of the book. Her sister is one of the coauthors.
Aug 16, 2010
Juanita
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
parents who have lost children or experienced other childbearing losses
Still reading, but very helpful book. Deals with childbearing losses of all kinds in a gentle, loving and healing way.
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