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Life After Baby Loss
Life After Baby Loss
Sep 20, 2024 8:44 AM

Author:Nicola Gaskin,Nora Leinad

Life After Baby Loss

**Winner of Author of The Year at The Butterfly (Baby Loss) Awards**

For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss.

When my baby died my whole world changed forever. I was left full of love, yet deeply heartbroken and faced with the task of living without my most precious longed for treasure. Following a fraught journey of trying to conceive again, two subsequent miscarriages, and an anxiety fuelled pregnancy after loss, I was finally able to welcome my baby girl into the world. This is the book I wish I’d been given – it will help you to not only survive the loss of your baby but to celebrate the life they had, no matter how brief. This is my hard won gift to you.

Losing a child is one of the most devastating events you can go through and yet, losing your baby – particularly before they are born – remains a taboo and often misunderstood topic. In this very gentle guide, Nicola Gaskin opens up the conversation around baby loss offering raw, honest and deeply empathetic support to all parents.

From coping with the initial shock, finding ways to overcome jealousy and anger, surviving birthdays and Mother’s Day, through to living with everlasting grief and the fresh round of grief and anxiety that comes with parenting after loss, it will help you to navigate through a huge range of intense and complex emotions.

Beautifully written and powerfully illustrated, this book will hold your hand through your darkest and lightest moments: read it to know you are not alone and that all your feelings are absolutely valid.

Reviews

1 in 4 pregnancies will end in loss and it is just not spoken about or recognised enough in our society. We love that Nicola is both tackling the stigma and helping other parents to reach out and access the support they need through this book.

—— Tommy's

A powerful and trustworthy insight into the brain. You will love his playful story telling and guidance

—— Dr Rupy Aujla - author 'The Doctor's Kitchen' and 'Eat to Beat Illness'

Rahul Jandial's truth and honesty is fantastic and his knowledge is amazing

—— Tim Lovejoy, Channel 4 'Sunday Brunch' TV presenter and podcast host

Forget supplements and pricey potions - these easy, doctor-approved exercises and lifestyle upgrades can help boost your brain at any age

—— New York Post

Want to be happier, feel younger AND stave off dementia? Then try a leading neurosurgeon's brilliantly simple workouts for your little grey cells with this ingenious "BOOTCAMP FOR YOUR BRAIN"

—— Daily Mail

Finally! A book about the brain that has gripping stories, easy to understand science, and useful tips that people can use in their daily lives. If you only read one book about the human brain, this should be the one. This book makes me even more proud of our unique craft - brain surgery and neuroscience

—— Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa,Author of 'Dr Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon'

World-leading neuroscientist Dr Rahul Jandial takes readers on a journey through the body's most mysterious organ. As well as revealing the secrets of the working brain, he offers tips on boosting memory, minimising pain and cutting Alzheimer's risk

—— Mail on Sunday

Who knew a book about the human brain could be so enlightening and enjoyable at the same time? Science has come a long way and Dr. Rahul Jandial is on the leading edge of some of the most promising and innovative breakthroughs in treating the brain. In Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon Jandial strikes an elegant balance between highlighting scientific discoveries, "busting" popular myths and providing realistic tips that can be applied to everyday life. The stories he shares about his experiences and the brain's ability to adapt and heal are incredibly inspiring

—— Sandy Nunez, ESPN

A sweeping tour d’horizon … lucid and entertaining … Much as Siddhartha Mukherjee did in his book The Gene, Davis expertly weaves together human stories and scientific endeavour

—— The Times

New ways to treat cancer, diabetes, arthritis and other age-related diseases … Davis is a sure and engaging guide to these developments

—— Observer

A terrific book by a consummate storyteller and scientific expert

—— Guardian

Gives extraordinary new details of an ancient remedy that is already more marvellous, powerful and flexible than any medicine to come out of a lab

—— Roger Highfield

The human body is the most complicated assemblage of chemicals in the known universe. It's a huge scientific challenge to understand how we metabolise, how we acquire immunity, and how drugs work. Daniel Davis is a distinguished expert in this field – and he's a fine writer too. He portrays vividly how great discoveries emerge – via prolonged effort, via cooperation and competition, and sometime sheer luck. This gripping book gives an authentic flavour of how science is actually done – and why it's important for humanity's future

—— Martin Rees

This book is an insight into new, remarkable and almost unnoticed advances in immunology and shows how medicine is moving on from the world of the gene to the world of the antibody

—— Steve Jones

Any reader completely unfamiliar with the workings of the immune system is likely to be dumbstruck with admiration for its intricacy ... Davis's book is full of enlivening little anecdotes

—— Literary Review

[The Beautiful Cure] offers fresh perspectives on future research strategies

—— Audrey R. Glynn , Science

Superb

—— Matt Chilton, **Books of the Year** , Daily Telegraph

We all think we know how the immune system works, roughly. This exciting and elegant book on new discoveries shows how wrong we were

—— 50 Best Books of 2018 , Daily Telegraph

An excellent book on our immune system. His lucid prose lets the science speak for itself, and it beautifully illuminates one of the most exciting frontiers of modern medicine

—— Science Focus

Engaging and lucid... [There is] a compelling human story of the researchers who made the discoveries. The author has gone to great lengths to interview the key players in the story

—— Andrew Taylor-Robinson , The Biologist

[Segal] is a natural, fluent writer and, in this book, the reader will feel confident in her hands even as she explores a shattering episode in family life… Segal is brilliant at conveying the tedium and the trials of life in the ICU and beyond. In short, Mother Ship is simply compelling

—— Anne Garvey , Jewish Chronicle

Hopeful, harrowing…and darkly funny, Mother Ship has you laughing, crying and frantically turning the pages to discover how it all turns out

—— Sarah Hughes , i

[Segal’s] words are a powerful, poetic and deeply affecting reminder of how precious are life, health and the everyday

—— Daily Express

Segal's moving memoir reveals not only what it takes to keep premature babies alive, but also what it means to be human and a mother

—— Vogue, *Summer reads of 2019*

Mother Ship is a huge achievement for Segal, who has produced a memoir that promises to linger with you like a literary earworm… an extraordinary testament to the power of human survival

—— Jackie Annesley , Sunday Times

Vivid, fearless and inspiring… This is an intimate and electrifying memoir. It is a hymn to the sustaining power of women's friendships, and a loving celebration of the two small girls – and their mother – who defy the odds

—— SheerLuxe, *Summer reads of 2019*

A deeply moving, yet also witty and heart-warming account

—— Wendy Bristow , Planet Mindful, *Summer Reads of 2019*

[Segal] captures beautifully the complexities and contradictions of the human body

—— Laura Hackett , Times Literary Supplement

An ode to the companionship of the women on the neonatal ward in the darkest, most volatile days, it is moving but never mawkish

—— Phoebe Luckhirst , Evening Standard, *Books of the Year*

A song of praise to the beleaguered, indomitable NHS, with writing at such a pitch that it lingered with me all year

—— Olivia Laing , Observer, *Books of the Year*

A heart-tugging account… this is one of the year’s most exquisitely written books

—— Claire Allfree , Metro, *Books of the Year*
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