I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that it was awful. And me, my husband, and my son had to figure out how to move forward without her. I had been so sure that like so many other people with scary NICU stories and now-healthy kids, that this would be a hard time we got through, but that everything would be OK, that one day she would triumphantly come home. After six days of being the sickest baby in the NICU, my baby girl died in my arms. Once she was born, it was a different story they couldn’t figure out what exactly was wrong, and nothing they tried seemed to improve her situation. The problem worsened, but the doctors were relatively confident that despite the fluid, an early delivery and some serious time in the NICU would give the medical team the chance to fix what was wrong, and the baby would pull through. The following week I was checked in to the hospital so I could be monitored around the clock. That day, the doctors found a problem with my baby’s fluid levels and wanted keep an eye on things to make sure everything progressed well. The emotions are never false, but they're rarely dramatic, either, and the rather stiff dialogue is spoken by characters who are never more than the sum of their situations.We are honored that our friend and frequent contributor Karen shared her story with us today ~ Whitney and HeatherĦ months ago, I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with my second child and having a routine checkup in what had been a mostly normal pregnancy. This is an example of the novel as a therapeutic tool. They grow apart and even seek emotional solace-though never sinfully-in the arms of others.
The rest of the novel shows Laura and Trace grieving in their different ways (unsurprisingly, she's emotional and he's not). When the family goes on summer vacation, Annie is killed in a horseback-riding mishap. Their youngest child, Annie, is a bright, beautiful and slightly rebellious 16-year-old, who may or may not be having sex with her new boyfriend, but who is definitely tired of her father being so distant and her mother being so prying. Their sons, Bart and Philip, are both nice college-age kids. Her husband, Trace, is a kindly, if dry, philosophy professor so consumed by his work that Laura often feels he isn't listening when she recounts her admittedly mundane daily tasks. The central character is Laura Randall, a full-time housewife who gave up her career as a graphic artist to raise her children.
Drawing from her own experience, Hickman, author of the nonfiction Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working through Grief, has written an earnest first novel about how a family copes with the accidental death of a child.
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