A Gift of Time
Continuing Your Pregnancy when Your Baby's Life is Expected to Be Brief
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: Second edition.
Description: xiv, 428 pages ; 23 cm.
"This book describes and affirms the wide range of experiences and emotions that can follow a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis. It offers encouragement and practical ideas for moving forward, including guidance for decision-making, strategies for coping with the remainder of your pregnancy, and ideas for nurturing and being with your baby, before and after birth and death. This book also describes the concept of perinatal hospice and palliative care, which is a well-established way of supporting parents whose babies are expected to die before or shortly after birth"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press health book
Subjects:
Prenatal diagnosis -- Psychological aspects.
Newborn infants -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Palliative treatment.
Perinatal death.
Prenatal diagnosis -- Psychological aspects.
Newborn infants -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Palliative treatment.
Perinatal death.
ISBN:
9781421446707
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index.