A Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle

<p>Tens of thousands of women and families every year lose a baby to miscarriage stillbirth or infant death. The statistics are sobering--between 10% and 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage 1% in stillbirth and nearly 23000 babies die before their first birthday--but statistics alone miss the depth of the hurt. Each loss is personal and devastating.</p><p>No woman is prepared to lose a baby and caregivers are often unaware of how best to help. In <em>Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle </em>therapist Hallie Scott first shares her own story as a mother whose only child Abigail was stillborn and then leads readers through a healing process that makes space for heartbreak despair guilt questions and anger. Life is never the same in the wake of the loss but a new normal is possible.</p><p>The book will be a welcome resource for families who have lost a child as well as for those seeking to care for them in their traumatic grief.</p>