Baby lost : a story of grief and hope / Hannah Robert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robert, Hannah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miscarriage--Psychological aspects.

Mothers--Australia.

Fetal death--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2017.

Summary:

What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a picnic when their car was crushed by a four-wheel-drive. Hannah's baby didn't survive.When Hannah told her story in court, the judge wept. In her struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, Hannah had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own relationship with hope. Her powerful story is written with clarity and beauty, shining light on an unimaginably dark event and is, unexpectedly, tempered with life and promise.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Part I: Impact

1. Sunday, 27 December 2009

2. The second-best blanket

3. Shavasana

4. The torture booties

5. The crazy lady in ward four

6. Frida and me

7. Tabloid tragedy

8. Permission to bend

Part II: Re-entry

9. Zombieland

10. The 'born alive' rule

11. Sun salute with bedpan

12. The posthumous godfather

13. Matryoshka

14. Histopathology

15. Proof

16. Scar tissue

17. Funeral appreciation

18. I have a dark-haired daughter

19. Dr No-Sperm-for-You

20. Heartbeat

21. Making the judge cry

22. Close up with hope

23. The charnel ground

24. Fat Tuesday

25. Undone

26. Tsunami

27. Earth and sun

Part III: Ripples

28. Both my babies

29. Zoe's Law

30. Holding the torch

Acknowledgements

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522869446

0522869440

OCLC:

987616647