Empty Arms, Sherokee Ilse
Empty Arms, Sherokee Ilse
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Empty Arms
Coping With Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death

Author: Sherokee Ilse

Narrator: Sherokee Ilse

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Empty Arms is written for surviving the first hours and beyond.

Revised and updated, this classic audiobook is one of the first recommended to newly bereaved parents to offer guidance in decision-making after their baby’s death and to assist caregivers as they support families. Empty Arms encourages families to meet their babies and say hello before rushing to say goodbye.

With compassion that comes from Sherokee and David’s experience of having lived through the death of their son Brennan, the audiobook offers guidance and practical suggestions for the decision-making at the time (including why and how one might see, hold, and memorialize one’s baby) and over time (such as how to handle such times as anniversaries, holidays, and the birth of other babies in the parents’ close circle).

This audiobook offers ongoing support about subjects such as returning to work or to life, couple grieving, surviving children, feeling guilty, having another child or not, and feeling lonely. Family and friends can learn how to understand the loss and be supportive of the bereaved families. With over 300,000 copies in print, this book touches the hearts of families at the time of their loss and over time as they heal.

This audiobook is expertly narrated by the author. If possible, the author recommends reading along in the book as you listen to this audio edition to facilitate maximum understanding and retention. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2012 Sherokee Ilse §

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith on March 26, 2011

Another reviewer labeled this book with "common sense" and only gave it two stars. But it is common sense that helps parents who cannot hold their baby in their arms, cannot see the color of their baby's eyes, will never hear their baby cry. Common sense is what takes off and leaves us all alone whe......more

Goodreads review by Angela on April 04, 2019

A helpful, conversationally written, and compassionately conveyed resource for women who've lost a baby at any stage in pregnancy (or in the days/weeks/months post-birth)--for grieving fathers, and for those inner-circle people who wish to be both loving and comforting to parents who've experienced......more

Goodreads review by Meagan on May 05, 2020

This book was given to us in the hospital, and I really appreciate having a resource when I went home. It was a helpful read that I wish I had read before we came home.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on May 04, 2011

Beautiful book. I highly recommend reading this. I got very emotional at times reading this. I was in a wonderful birth group with my first born son (after my first pregnancy loss) and we have stayed close through the 3 years after our children were all born. In that time one amazing woman lost her......more

Goodreads review by Megan on November 25, 2014

Has some good points that I will definitely implement in my own life. That having been said, all the typos and grammatical errors were distracting. It's hard for me to focus on the point when I'm mentally correcting grammar.......more