1. The News: Receiving Your Baby's Diagnosis
Understanding Diagnostic Prenatal Testing
The Immediate Emotional Storm
Making Decisions about Continuing Your Pregnancy
Perinatal Hospice and Palliative Care
Sorting through Your Values
Making Decisions with Your Partner
Consulting with People You Trust
3. The Emotional Journey: Grieving and Adjusting to Your New Path
An Overview of the Grieving Process
You and Your Grieving Partner
Spiritual and Philosophical Aspects
Living in the Twilight of Death
Your Reorientation and Adjustment
4. Waiting with Your Baby: Settling in for the Rest of Your Pregnancy
Getting Appropriate Medical Care
Embracing the Time Remaining
5. Making Medical Decisions: Choosing Care for Your Baby
Researching Your Baby's Condition
Researching Your Baby's Treatment Options
Ambivalence about Medical Decisions
Opting for Hospice and Palliative Care
6. Getting Ready: Preparing for Your Baby's Birth, Life, and Death
Wishes for after Your Baby's Birth
Including Your Baby's Siblings
Including Your Family and Friends
Other Practical Preparations
Preliminary Funeral and Burial Planning
7. Welcoming Baby: Birth Experiences and Meeting Your Baby
Approaching the Time of Birth
If Your Baby Lives after Birth
8. Saying Goodbye: Holding On and Letting Go
Parenting Your Dying Baby
Experiences with Babies as They Are Dying
Time with Your Baby after Death
Decisions about Your Baby's Body
Relinquishing Your Baby's Body
Funerals and Memorial Services
Your Baby's Final Resting Place
9. Continuing Your Journey: After Your Baby Dies
The Mother's Postpartum Recovery
Your Grieving Process Continues
Identifying Your Feelings
More Techniques for Coping
Regrets and Making Peace with Them
Dealing with the Outside World
Reflections on Your Journey
Spiritual Beliefs and Struggles
Long-term Reflections on Grief and Healing
If You Could Reach Back in Time ...
Moving Forward with Gratitude
Appendix. Sample Birth Plan
