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Books and Publications
The books listed below are selection that we thought would be a useful resource for both parents and professionals who would like understand more about the loss of a baby or babies. If you read any books that you feel others would find useful please email the title, author and a small review if you like to us.
Twin and Triplet Psychology. Audrey C. Sandbank, Routledge, London 1999
Aimed at professionals but also of interest to parents, discusses parent reactions to the diagnosis of multiples and raising multiples, intrauterine behavior, relationships between twins and triplets from pre-birth through adulthood, bereavement, special needs multiples, adolescence and more.
After Loss: Parenting the next pregnancy
Joanne O'Leary, Lynnda Parker, Clare Thorwick, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis MN, 1998
Discusses theory and practical assistance for the psychological hurdles faced by parents in subsequent pregnancy.
One chapter discusses loss in multifetal pregnancy and methods pregnancy and methods of helping parents though pregnancy
in which one or more children died in utero. Includes birth plans.
Loss During Pregnancy or in the Newborn Period
Edited by James F. Woods, Jr. M.D. and Jenifer Esposito Woods, MBA, Janetti Publications, 1997
Insightful and complete review for medical and counseling professionals on all aspects of pregnancy and infant loss.
Twins, Triplets and More
Elizabeth M. Bryan, St Martins Press, N York, 1992
Chapters 11 and 12 deal with loss of a twin. Dr Bryan, British Pediatrician, is well known for her dedication to the multiple-birth issues.
The Special Brother
Judy Kidder, Reivers Press, San Diego, CA
Available for $3.50 plus $1 shipping and handling through: Judy Kidd 352 Kinsey Ave,
East Liverpool, OH 43920, phone 330-385-8896
Booklet for children, from the viewpoint of a 3-year-old boy whose infant twin brother died at age 4
months after heart surgery. Photos include older brother holding the twins, twins together,
parents and extended family, and a photo of surviving family members. Good for siblings at the time of loss,
and may later explain to a surviving twin. Author is grandmother of the twins.
When a baby dies: a handbook for healing and helping
Rana K. Liml and Sara Rich Wheeler
Sensitive handbook details management of any type of fetal or perinal loss. Chapter 7 covers multiple pregnancy loss,
and other chapters cover physician, funeral director, clergy roles.
Guidelines for Professional: Bereavement
Elizabeth Bryan, M.D. and Faith Hallett
Multiple Births Foundation, England.
Excellent overview o multiple birth bereavement from prenatal through childhood,
with some discussion of approach to the surviving twin.
The Lone Twin
Joan Woodward, Free Association Books London/ NY, 1998.
Surveys adult bereaved twin reactions to loss from all causes,
includes some accounts of positive or neutral reactions and more
psychological theory than the book by Betty Jean Case
William and Wendall: A Family Remembered
Donnali Fifield, Times Two Publishing Co, San Francisco 1999
Written by a twin whose twin son died after premature birth in 1990.
The sometimes intense book explores grief for multiple losses (the son's death
followed other personal tragedies, including child abuse, suicide, and father's death).
Author criticises traditional grief counseling that aims to help people "recover" from
events that prematurely change them. Ordering information and sample chapter can be viewed at
www.timestwopublishing.com/ww.htm
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