Life after baby loss : a companion and guide for parents

**Winner of Author of The Year at The Butterfly (Baby Loss) Awards** For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss. When my baby died my whole world changed forever. I was left full of love, yet deeply heartbroken and faced with the task of living without my most precious longed for treasure. Following a fraught journey of trying to conceive again, two subsequent miscarriages, and an anxiety fuelled pregnancy after loss, I was finally able to welcome my baby girl into the world. This is the book I wish I'd been given – it will help you to not only survive the loss of your baby but to celebrate the life they had, no matter how brief. This is my hard won gift to you. Losing a child is one of the most devastating events you can go through and yet, losing your baby – particularly before they are born – remains a taboo and often misunderstood topic. In this very gentle guide, Nicola Gaskin opens up the conversation around baby loss offering raw, honest and deeply empathetic support to all parents. From coping with the initial shock, finding ways to overcome jealousy and anger, surviving birthdays and Mother's Day, through to living with everlasting grief and the fresh round of grief and anxiety that comes with parenting after loss, it will help you to navigate through a huge range of intense and complex emotions. Beautifully written and powerfully illustrated, this book will hold your hand through your darkest and lightest moments: read it to know you are not alone and that all your feelings are absolutely valid. "It is often said that losing a child is one of the most devastating events that humans can go through, and yet, losing your child when they are a baby - particularly before they are even born - remains a taboo topic, often misunderstood. In this very gentle guide, Nicola Gaskin, who has had one neonatal death, two miscarriages and a `rainbow' baby, is set to change this, opening up the conversation around baby loss with her raw, honest and deeply empathetic insights. From coping with the initial shock, dealing with jealousy and anger, surviving birthdays and Mother's Day, trying for another baby, through to living with everlasting grief - and the fresh round of grief that comes if/when a new baby arrives - this book will help you to navigate every emotional aspect of baby loss. Beautifully illustrated and powerfully written, read this book to know you are not alone and that all your feelings are absolutely valid."--Publisher's description