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Links A lifesaving group of women and some of their spouses who will support you, tell you what to expect, and be a ready listener. They also have medical forums where doctors will answer your questions. Check their search engine for background information if you'd rather lurk than post. An extremely well done web site dealing with all aspects of miscarriage and its aftermath, including a pen pal system for bereaved mothers to contact other bereaved mothers. A large, comprehensive miscarriage site with workshops, memorial gardens for baby dedications, and many poems and testimonials from bereaved parents An overall parents site with many areas beside just miscarriage. This huge group of women have become a community and often talk to each other on the bulletin boards. Parents Place has a less serious feel than INCIID. Parents Place has two really neat features: A pregnancy calendar that you create will chart your baby's progress for the nine months. I printed one out for Casey to put in his memory box. You can certainly just go to their main page and browse around without going directly to the pregnancy loss area, of which there are several.
A wonderful Christian site with information on how to handle the things people will say to you after a miscarriage, a web ring, music and poetry, and a message about how to become a Christian. A site that offers an email group, poems and songs, and a gift store where you can purchase prints, jewelry, and other items with a baby and angel theme. A nice site to post your miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death story and read others.
A site to place stories or leave a memorial. Outlines the frequency, causes, and treatment of PROM. A mostly Christian site with sections such as, "Why your baby is a real person." and "How you can know your baby is in heaven." There is also a nice section about what to say to someone who has had a miscarriage. Few people know that I am now a baby photographer. Because of Casey, I also do photo restoration and portraits of stillborn babies. This is a free service. Often hospital pictures are not very flattering, and I can usually make them beautiful enough to display or show to other people. You send in the picture by mail (in the US) or scan it and send it by email and I will retouch the photo and email the file back to you.
Where does this information come from? Many people are concerned about the quality of information they receive on the Internet. It is a growing concern that people are getting medical advice from poor sources. This site is written completely by Deanna, the web mistress, who lost her own first baby in 1998. Since then, she has interviewed doctors, read countless books, researched both print and web materials, and talked with several thousand women about their experiences via email. One thing we do know is that no one--from the terrified woman who is miscarrying to the revered doctors publishing well researched articles in the New England Journal of Medicine--totally agrees on many facts surrounding miscarriage. It is the intent of this web site to provide the most general and accepted of facts, while realizing that every woman's experience is different, and that statistics such as 1 in 500 don't mean much if you are the 1. This site is certainly not infallible. The only person who can really tell you what is going on is your own doctor, who peers into your privates with a light and a speculum, who samples your urine, or who presses a sonogram paddle into your belly. If you are in trouble, bleeding, scared, or more depressed than you think you can recover from, you MUST find help. Read and research all you can, but remember that the one-on-one assistance of a real doctor is the only thing that will give you answers that count. To see my book and web resources, scroll to the top of this page or click here. |
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Davis, Deborah L. Empty Cradle, Broken
Heart. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1999 revised edition.
Scher, Jonathan. Preventing Miscarriage,
The Good News. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.
Weschler, Toni. Taking Charge of Your
Fertility. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.
Furnia,
Molly and Dunnewold, Ann. A Piece of My Heart: Living Through the
Grief of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death , 2000.
Carol
Cirulli Lanham. Pregnancy after a Loss: A Guide to Pregnancy After
a Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Death , 1999.
Kluger-Bell,
Kim. Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and
Other Pregnancy Loss, 2000.
Semchyscyn, Stefan and Carol Colman. How to
Prevent Miscarriage and Other Crisis of Pregnancy , 1990
Eisenberg, Arlene, Murkoff, Heidi, and
Hathaway, Sandee. What to Expect When You're Expecting. New York:
Workman Publishing, 1996.
Reiss,
Fern, et al. The Infertility Diet: Get Pregnant and Prevent
Miscarriage. 1999
