title: They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about Stillbirth
author: Janel C. Atlas
description: As is true for all obstetricians, I was confronted with the reality of stillbirth early on in my career. Nothing prepares mothers for this potentially devastating experience. The process must be shared and grieved if the wounds are to fully heal. <i>They Were Still Born</i> helps this process enormously. This collection is beautiful, moving, and healing. (Christiane Northrup, M.D., OB-GYN; author of the New York Times bestselling Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause)<br /><br />These courageous, moving accounts from the fierce front lines of infant loss are filled with rare beauty and insistent love. <i>They Were Still Born</i> will help heal the bereaved and illuminate a culture that has for too long closed its eyes to the pain and devastation of stillbirth. A tour de force. (Lorraine Ash, author of Life Touches Life: A Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing)<br /><br />The nearly two-dozen-chapter book's authors include a wide variety of men and women  a bereavement specialist, an obstetrician, a staff writer for The Washington Post, a registered nurse, a professor, an anthropologist, and more, all of whom share their experiences....In addition to the poignant essays, <i>They Were Still Born</i> includes a section called "The Way Forward," which features ideas for honoring and remembering your baby and engaging in creative expressions of grief. It also includes chapters on what doctors currently know about stillbirth, as well as emerging research on the topic. There is also a 10-page listing of resource books for adults and children, support networks, blogs and more. (<i>Delaware Online</i>)<br /><br />There is useful information about the need for more autopsies following stillbirth and better data collection to assist with research into 'unexplained' stillbirth. Overall, this book should be a valuable resource not only for mothers grieving for a stillborn child, but also for their partners, relatives, and the wider community. (<i>The Lancet</i>)
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  # Children of Men
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Children of Men
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHILDREN OF MEN
  
  
  by P.D. James
  
  
  Again, to my daughters
  
  
  Clare and Jane
  
  
  who helped
  
  
  BOOK ONE
  
  
  OMEGA
  
  
  January-March 2021
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Children of Men
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  Friday 1 January 2021
  
  
  Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last
  human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of
  Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. If the first
  reports are to believed, Joseph Ricardo died as he had lived. The distinction,
  if one can call it that, of being the last human whose birth was officially
  recorded, unrelated as it was to any personal virtue or talent, had always
  been difficult for him to handle. And now he is dead. The news was given to us
  here in Britain on the nine o’clock programme of the State Radio Service and I
  heard it fortuitously. I had settled down to begin this diary of the last half
  of my life when I noticed the time and th