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A Gift of Time:
Continuing Your Pregnancy
When Your Baby's
Life
Is Expected to Be Brief
By Amy Kuebelbeck and Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D.
Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University
Press
A Gift of Time is a gentle and practical guide for parents who decide to continue their pregnancy knowing that their baby's life will be brief. When prenatal testing reveals that an unborn child is expected to die before or shortly after birth, some parents will choose to proceed with the pregnancy and to welcome their child into the world. With compassion and support, A Gift of Time walks them step-by-step through this challenging and emotional experience—from the infant's life-limiting prenatal diagnosis and the decision to have the baby to coping with the pregnancy and making plans for the baby’s birth and death.
A Gift of Time also offers inspiration and reassurance through the memories of numerous parents who have loved a child who did not survive. Their moving experiences are stories of grief—and of hope. Their anguish over the prenatal diagnosis turns to joy and love during the birth of their child and to gratitude and peace when reflecting on their baby’s short life.
A Gift of Time is full of practical suggestions for parents and for caregivers. It also features the innovative concept of perinatal hospice/palliative care. Caring and thoughtful, the book helps parents embrace the extraordinary time they will have with their child.
Amy Kuebelbeck, a former reporter and editor for the Associated Press, wrote about her
experience losing a child in Waiting with Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life.
Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist and expert in the emotional
aspects of neonatal medical ethics and perinatal bereavement. She is the author of Empty
Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby.
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