Miller Clendon Nicola (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 208 pages. As a practising midwife and a mother who has lost four babies at various stages of pregnancy, including a stillbirt h, Nicola Miller-Clendon is well qualified to write this book. Pr egnancy loss is more common than we think. For the 57,000 babies born live each year in New Zealand another 15,000 babies are not, often leaving women and their partners bereft and faced with unc ertainty. Yet there has always been a code of silence around preg nancy loss. This is the first generation of women who are beginni ng to talk about their losses and seek answers. This book has bee n written to provide the support that is often hard to find and t o answer the many questions, emotional and medical, that these wo men have. Beginning with recovery and grieving, there are also ch apters on children and loss and guidelines for family and friends . Believing that the loss of a baby at whatever stage of pregnanc y should be acknowledged, Nicola offers many suggestions of diffe rent ways a family could choose to remember their baby. In a chap ter entitled Men Lose Babies, Too, Nicola addresses the often ver y different ways men and women may handle their loss. A subsequen t pregnancy after the loss of a baby can be an anxious time with many questions unique to this experience. Nicola takes the reader through each trimester, addressing these anxieties with both emo tional support and medical information. An extensive resource sec tion lists agencies and specialists for those who need further as sistance and guidance. Nicola Miller-Clendon holds a Bachelor in Health Science, is currently studying towards her Masters and is a practising midwife and childbirth educator. She is the mother o f five living children as well as four babies lost at various sta ges of pregnancy, including a stillborn son. Her two previously p ublished books are The User's Guide to the New Zealand Baby and T he User's Guide to the New Zealand Pregnancy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine, Edgewear. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. Inspired by the cry of a new mother "I wish this came with an owner's manual!". Includes month-by-month guidelines for the care of both baby and mother, plus a post-pregnancy exercise programme. 259 pages, plus index. Cover design by Eimear Crawford. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair - Some Wear. Sean D'Souza and Various Photographers (illustrator). First.