Silent Grief: Miscarriage - Finding Your Way through the Darkness by Clara Hinton
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- Pub. Date: April 2001
- 192pp
- Sales Rank: 268,525
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2001
- Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- Sales Rank: 268,525
- ISBN-13: 9780892213719
- ISBN: 089221371X
Synopsis
Miscarriage has touched almost every home, although it's rarely talked-about. It's the invisible pain.. Even couples who are very close and on sure footing find it too upsetting to discuss.
In Silent Grief, author Clara Hinton knows what she's talking about. Experiencing the heartbreak of child loss firsthand, she tackles this universal tragedy by talking with women and men who have dealt with miscarriage. These interviews shed much light on the debilitating effects of child loss, including consuming guilt, depression, and strained marriages.
Acknowledging that God is the ultimate healer of hurting families, the author shows through her interviews and personal experiences that there is hope for functioning through child loss. But the goal goes beyond that, to help families be happy again, and look forward to the future.
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July 07, 2007: Silent Grief by Clara Hinton When the subject of miscarriage, or child loss of any type comes up why do people just try and avoid talking about what happened? Doctors, friends, and even family that are supposed to be there through everything to support you can even seem to turn you away, only saying two words that break your heart, 'I'm Sorry.' When you need comfort and consoling more now than ever, it seems like you're left all alone to grieve by yourself. Just looking to find a way to help mothers, fathers, or anyone who has suffered from child loss Clara Hinton writes about her own experiences. Going from the pain of miscarriages to still birth and beyond, Ms. Hilton explains how to turn to God as he will always be there to comfort you when no one else seems to care. I needed tissues while reading this book. I have also had a miscarriage and it tore me apart. I constantly blamed myself for not being able to carry the child and felt that I had let my husband down. It is just a part of the grieving period and now that I have read Silent Grief, I feel a little more at peace knowing that there have been people in the same situation. Blaming yourself and silently cursing God for the death of your child is natural actually, but if you continue to have faith in Him then your life will turn out as it should be. Anyone man or woman, should read this book if you've suffered through child loss of any kind. It is written with hands of experience and love that can help you through one of the toughest times in your life. I honestly wish I had this book through my 'dark time' as I call it because it would have helped me so much. This book will remain on my keeper shelf and I will gladly recommend it to anyone that could use a friend in their time of need. Ms. Hinton gets 5 hearts and huge hugs from me!
Too repetitive and depressing and too wide of a scopeby Anonymous
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April 21, 2005: My first reaction to this book is how horrible her experiences with child loss were. She talks endlessly about people who said or did exactly the wrong thing, and I'm sure it hurt horribly. And she adds other people's terrible experiences. Aside from her husband graciously being there to hold her while she cried there is very little mention of what caring and loving actions others might have done. I find it hard to believe that she had absolutely no loving or caring words or actions from anybody else. She says the same thing over and over again with very little organization. The chapter 'Where are my Friends?' talks about all the same issues as the chapters 'Nobody Cares', and 'They Care, but They don't Understand' just with different stories. Sometimes she mentions things that people did to try and create a memorial to the child or to try to heal, but you have to read the whole chapter to find them sprinkled here and there. She has too wide a scope. She talks about miscarriages (both early and late-term), early childhood death (such as SIDS), death of older children, missing children as well as death of adult children. She talks about people never healing for 20 years or more. At first I found this especially troublesome, since I feared that I would never recover to any degree and always feel as sad as I do right now, or worse that the full impact might not hit me until 6 months later and I might feel worse. This probably is more likely to apply to someone who lost an infant or toddler not someone like me who miscarried at 10 weeks. She doesn't make it clear which context she's talking about, so I can only guess. I haven't yet read the chapters that talk about healing, perhaps they are worth reading.
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