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