Brave Memoir by Elizabeth Heineman

Ghostbelly
Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman's wrenching account of giving birth to a stillborn baby baby and subsequently dealing with the loss. Heineman was in her mid-forties when she and her partner decided to try for a baby.  She conceived without difficulty and her pregnancy was uneventful. However, she knew that she was taking a risk when she made the decision to deliver at home with only a midwife in attendance, and not in a hospital. An unexpected placental abruption occurred right before she gave birth and the reader is taken through the painful stream of events that ends up with her losing her child. The amount of courage it took for her to share her painful story and the impossible task of saying goodbye to a child is astonishing.

"As Heineman admits, "there is nothing happy about a dead baby.  Not beginning, not middle, not end." Her story reveals the depths of emotional pain associated with stillbirth and reveals that parental love has no boundaries." - Publishers Weekly Reviews

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