Vermilion Life After Baby Loss: A Companion and Guide for Parents

I am so glad i came across this book, just started reading it and I couldn’t stop. As a momma who has experienced a miscarriage and a loss of a baby. I felt like someone else understood what I am going through. Thank you for sharing this beautiful book with the world.

Great great book! Such an easy read. Every time I felt sad, I would open this book and it helped me so much!

Oh how I wish this book had been around 3 years ago! When my son died, I did the only thing I (as a self-confessed bookworm) knew how - I scoured the Internet & local libraries for something to help. I wanted to know I wasn’t alone. I wanted to know that the thoughts & feelings which overwhelmed me we’re normal, and I desperately needed to learn how to navigate them, how to survive & that one day the grief which suffocated me wouldn’t feel quite so heavy, that I could live with it and live a life filled with more than the empty space my baby left behind. I found several resources, but none quite hit the mark.Enter Nicola, whose own son Winter died just weeks after my own. Life After Baby Loss is exactly what it says on the tin - a companion, a guide. It is not a memoir, although Nicola does draw on her own experience of both neonatal loss & miscarriage, it is about you - the reader.In her intuitive yet gentle way, Nicola provides a loving hand to guide you through life after loss; from surviving the raw intensity of first weeks and months, through to navigating anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Christmas. Each chapter provides a different focus, offering profound & relatable insight into some of the thoughts & feeling you may experience, as well practical tips & suggestions for ways to ease the heartache, manage your emotions and comfort societal expectations.Each chapter is summarised in bullet points, making these practical tips easy to digest and return to as and when, and the inclusion of Nora’s beautiful illustrations throughout add to the accessibility of this book.‘Life After Baby Loss’ encompass all losses, from miscarriage through to neonatal death, as well as acknowledging & validating the full spectrum of emotions which accompany it, including those we often shy away from admitting, such as guilt, or jelousy of others’ pregnancies.This book is a must read for anyone who has experienced the loss of a baby, in whatever circumstances, but it is also a fantastic resource for their families, friends, colleagues, as well as healthy care professionals, to enable them to offer bereaved parents the support & compassion they need.Huge well done Pea - Winter will be so incredibly proud!

I wish I would have read this book sooner. This book touched on subjects and feelings I have felt so guilty for thinking and have held on to. It was so relatable and made me feel like I am not alone in my new life of living with grief. She talks about her personal experience of Infant Loss and miscarriages, how she and others feel and how to overcome some of the intense feelings that weigh on us. If you are needing some guidance I would definitely recommend this book!I will say I am not an avid book reader and once I started this book I didn't put it down.

This book is very well written. For a parent that has been through baby loss, this is very helpful. Either at an early stage in pregnancy or even after baby’s first and last breath.