Healing Reading

[Cheryl Haggard]

I want to share with you several books that I read after Maddux's death. All of the books below, I highly recommend.

I will start with the one written by a father of a baby born still. His story is so real and so true. (Dads, This is a must read.}

TENDER FINGERPRINTS by Brad Stetson
Brad and Nina Stetson's journey through and beyond the death of their infant son B.J. after 8 months of pregnancy, is candid and moving, capturing the Stetsons' experience before B.J.'s birth, his baptism, burial, and the bereavement processes that allowed them to move beyond the sorrow.

IN A HEARTBEAT by Dawn Siegrist Waltman
http://remember.theroses.com/InaHeartbeat.html
If you have suffered the tragic loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death, this book was written especially for you. (I have had the honor to talk with Dawn personally and through emails about how sharing her story with Molly inspired me to share my story with others, in the hope that they too can find healing much sooner than later.)

GRIEVING THE CHILD I NEVER KNEW by Kathe Wunnenberg
http://www.zondervanchurchsource.com/inwunnenberg.htm
A Devotional Companion for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn or Newly Born Child
A devotional companion offering comfort, the reassurance of God’s presence, and strength for the journey through grief to healing for those who have lost a child through miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death.

BIG GEORGE-The Autobiography of an Angel by James Jennings
Big George is an angel in disguise who has been sent to Earth by our Father on a mission of the greatest importance to deliver a message.
(I read this book to my older children. The book talks about an angel sent to earth in the form of a NICU baby. I really believe that by reading this book to my children, it helped them understand more about life and death. We were all able to put Maddux in Big George's position. This book also helped me!)


Waiting for Gabriel by Amy Kuebelbeck
http://www.loyolabooks.org/store/***...sbn=082941603X
Also published in Italy as Aspettando Gabriel (Edizioni San Paolo, Milan, 2005) http://www.edizionisanpaolo.it/sched...Completo=92M28
Gabriel’s mother, Amy Kuebelbeck, shares the story of her family’s heartbreaking loss as well as the tragedy of all babies born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. After meeting with parents, counselors, medical professionals, and their parish priest, Kuebelbeck and her husband, Mark Neuzil, faced the ultimate conundrum: What happens when keeping your baby alive and sparing him unnecessary pain are mutually exclusive? (Amy, Thank you for sharing your story. Many Blessings~ Cheryl)