Elizabeth Heineman

An honest account of a common experience (stillbirth) that is rarely discussed.Brings up the controversies that rage about home-birth vs. medicalized birth. When this mother of a stillbirth decides to spend time with the body before burial, she challenges all our notions of how to deal with death, and what part a physical body might have in the grieving process. Has been excerpted on Salon.com, generating hundreds of comments and Facebook «likes.»In this age of tiger moms, mommy blogs, and...