Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss

"This is a wonderful book. I purchased it after the stillbirth of my first baby boy. It gave me the confidence to not try again but at least to start thinking about it. Thankfully we did and we have a beautiful 18 month old girl now. I felt like this book was written especially for me. It was so relevant to our experience of achieving parenthood. Thanks Ann for writing this book. "
~ Written on 2008-05-27

"I found this book to be ok. It deals more with trying after a stillbirth than trying after a miscarriage. Then it goes into how to get pregnant again, which if you have tried for any length of time with your other pregnancies - you know how it works. "
~ Written on 2008-03-27

"I actually purchased this book for my sister who's had two miscarriages in a matter of about five months. A friend of mine who also experienced two miscarriages in a row (a few years back) read this book and recommended I give it to my sister as part of a care package. I'm very glad I took my friend's advice because while my sister's found several books at the library on the topic of miscarriage, she said she wasn't able to find much at the major bookstores. Although I haven't read this book myself, I know my sister found it informative and encouraging. In fact, she said she read the entire book the same day she received it."
~ Written on 2008-02-18

"I starting reading this book a few weeks after our still birth. I did not want to "try again". I was just trying to deal with all the emotions and all the issues of our still birth. It has almost been two months now and all the other grieving book I've bought are on a shelf, but this one is still on my desk and I referance it almost every day.
This book has given me such a good resource for trying again, I almost feel like I could do it. I feel like I'd have a good chance to make it through with my sanity intact, no matter what the outcome."
~ Written on 2007-12-16

"After the stillbirth of our first child, we received or bought quite a few "Dead Baby Books" as we jokingly called them. Trying Again was the gift of a friend who knew that because we had lost our child to severe preeclampsia/HELLP, we would really struggle with whether we should try again in the future.

Trying Again is a reasonably good summary at the issues facing couples in a situation like ours, and special issues relevant going into a pregnancy that we know will be high risk. I have a minor frustration since all of these books about high risk family discuss the impact on the husband and the other children, and never seem to put any focus on the woman's career. It's often hard enough to be pregnant and work, let alone going into a pregnancy knowing that you may well have to stop working very early in order to go to term.

I would recommend the book for anyone who has lost a child. I think that many of the emotional issues are relevant whether you believe that your loss was a one-off event or whether you know already that you are high risk. However, I think women who have just learned the hard way that they are high risk will probably get the most out of the book."
~ Written on 2007-04-30