Healing After Miscarriage: Two Book Reviews

I've written a review essay about books on miscarriage for explorefaith.org. There are so many bad and superficial books out there about pregnancy loss that it feels heartening to call attention to two very good ones.  Miscarriage is a quiet and nearly invisible sorrow that too often goes unrecognized.  I'm astonished by how common it is, and also astonished that I never had to know before just how common it is.  It seems like a lot of women I meet are walking wounded from that festering pain of a dream deferred.

             

		Books  of Hope and Healing after Miscarriage  by Jana Riess   Since  my loss I have encountered so many others who have experienced pregnancy loss. I had no idea it was so common before it happened to me because people didn’t talk about it…it helps so much to talk and cry.   These words, confessed by a Georgia woman in the wake of her miscarriage, haunted me when I discovered them in the pages of Bernadette Keaggy’s helpful book Losing You Too Soon: Finding Hope After Miscarriage or the Loss of a Baby. Like the bereft Georgia mother, I too had no idea how common miscarriage is until I became a statistic  myself this summer. Some physicians think the rate is one in five pregnancies, others the more aggressive estimate of one in three. All I know is that, naively, I never expected it to happen to me, and was devastated when it did.   In the past weeks I have discovered two helpful books to help women who are coping with the loss of a pregnancy . . . . [Click here to continue reading the review essay on explorefaith.org.]

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Comments

[Tona]

Well written, Jana. I'm glad you found these books and took the time to share them with others. I have no doubt that your doing so will benefit others who needed to learn about them. Beautiful.