Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Pregnancy loss & social support -- Nine years later and still waiting : when health care providers' social support never arrives / Brann Maria -- Honoring stories of miscarriage in the medical context : a plea to health care providers / Jennifer Bute -- Looking for their light : advancing knowledge and supporting women by listening to their pregnancy loss narratives / Jennifer Fairchild & Michael Arrington -- Unscripted loss : a hesitant narrative of a reconstructed -- Family / Julie Walker & Ben Walker -- When the personal is professional -- A story we can live with: the role of the medical sonographer in the diagnosis of fetal demise / Elissa Foster & Jodi McGivern -- Searching for grace / Kristann Heinz & Elissa Foster -- When the professional is personal: case studies of pregnancy loss, my story of pregnancy loss / Lisa Schilling & Rachel Silverman -- Infertility, professional identity, and consciousness-raising / Caryn E. Medved -- Hidden in plain sight : mystoriography, melancholic mourning and the poetics of [my pregnancy] loss / Rebecca Kennerly -- Space, time, and pregnancy loss -- On the identity politics of pregnancy: an autoethnographic journey through/in reproductive time / Michaela Meyer -- The healing journey / Deleasa Randall-Grifiths -- Once upon a time : a tale of infertility, in vitro fertilization, and (re)birth / Lisa Weckerle -- The empty woman : dealing with sadness and loss after a hysterectomy / Elizabeth Root -- Without the sense of an ending -- Melancholy baby : time, emplotment, and other notes on our miscarriage / Jay Baglia -- Dying inside of me: unexplained recurrent early pregnancy loss / Jennifer M. Hawkings -- Moving through miscarriage: a personal narrative / Renata Ferdinand -- Nbarren and abandoned : our representations left unshared and uncharted / Julie Novak & Eduardo Gargurevich -- Reframing loss -- Cruel optimism and the problem with positivity : miscarriage as a model for living / Desiree Rowe -- Turning tragedy into triumph:a hero's journey from bereaved parent to international advocate / Kare Jones & Sherokee Ilse -- Breaking through the shame and silence : a media-centered approach to consciousness raising / Rachel Silverman -- Afterword / Jay Baglia & Rachel Silverman -- Glossary of terms -- Appendix: pregnancy loss in the media -- Contributor biographies -- References -- Index.