Zondervan Hope Beyond An Empty Cradle : The Journey Toward Healing After Stillbirth, Miscarriage, And Child Loss

Tens of thousands of women and families every year lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death.The statistics are sobering--between 10% and 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1% in stillbirth, and nearly 23,000 babies die before their first birthday--but statistics alone miss the depth of the hurt.Each loss is personal and devastating. No woman is prepared to lose a baby, and caregivers are often unaware of how best to help.In Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle therapist Hallie Scott first shares her own story, as a mother whose only child, Abigail, was stillborn, and then leads readers through a healing process that makes space for heartbreak, despair, guilt, questions, and anger.Life is never the same in the wake of the loss, but a new normal is possible. The book will be a welcome resource for families who have lost a child, as well as for those seeking to care for them in their traumatic grief.