Empty Arms: Coping After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
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Surviving the First Hours and Beyond
Revised and updated! This classic book is one of the first given to newly bereaved parents to offer guidance in decision-making after their baby’s death and to assist caregivers as they support families. Empty Arms encourages families to meet their babies and say hello before rushing to say goodbye. With compassion that comes from Sherokee and David’s experience of having lived through the death of their son Brennan, the book offers guidance and practical suggestions for the decision-making at the time (including why and how one might see, hold, and memorialize one’s baby) and over time (such as how to handle such times as anniversaries, holidays and the birth of other babies in the parents’ close circle.)
Family and friends can learn how to understand the loss and be supportive of the bereaved families.
It offers ongoing support about subjects such as returning to work or to life, couple grieving, surviving children, feeling guilty, having another child or not, and feeling lonely.
With over 300,000 in print, this book touches the hearts of families at the time of their loss and over time as they heal.
An excellent bibliography and resource section are included.
Empty Arms: Coping After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
5 Responses to “Empty Arms: Coping After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death”
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March 23rd, 2010 at 7:38 am
This is a good book if you want something simple. It is in the question, answer format and fairly short. You can easily find what you are looking for without having to search through the other stuff you don’t want to think about right now. It would have been extremely helpful right when my son died. It would be good for the hospitals to give out. It didn’t have as many stories of other couples (they do help you to feel less alone) as I would have liked, though. There is some advice on how to go on and answers to questions I would not have even thought of, though so I do recommend it. It shouldn’t be the only book you buy on loss, but if you can afford more than one, get this one.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:46 am
This book is written as a personal advice journal. There are very few things that are of use to my husband and I in dealing with the stillbirth of our son after the funeral. Most of the advice is centered around dealing with the news itself, the delivery, notifying family and friends. If you enjoy a book that is like reading a personal diary of one woman, this book is for you. I personally did not care for it as the situations discussed were behind my husband and I by the time we read it. We found that “A Silent Sorrow” was a better fit for helping us handle long term issues beyond the first week.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:57 am
This book has it all. It covers real emotions from someone that’s “been there.” It helped me to understand and accept my own feelings. It also helped my family and friends understand what I was going through. I have talked with several grieving parents and have recommended this book to each one of them.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:50 am
Sherokee Isle wrote this wonderful book that touches on all that I went through. I have recommended it to many friends with similar experiences and it has helped them cope with the loss of their little Angels too. I even wrote to her (her address is in tha back of the book) to thank her for helping me, and she sent a hand written personl note back to me telling me how sorry she was for my loss. There are many things she suggests doing to help you through this hard time. She validates your feelings and discusses her personal stories. She is a voice of experience.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I read this book about 5 weeks after my daughter was stillborn on 2/12/01 at 39 weeks. It was very technical and dealt with the decisions that need to be made in the hospital or soon after. By the time I read the book, most of the decisions the book talks about having to make had already been made. It really has not been much help through my grieving process
Rating: 2 / 5