Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

by Rachel Lewis and Rachel Lewis

Book Overview

When your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss is common, it's not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don't know how to support you.

What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate tough issues, such as

- coping with a postpartum body without a baby in your arms
- facing social isolation and grief invalidation
- having faith when you feel let down by God
- dealing with the overwhelming process of making everyday decisions
- learning to move forward after loss, and
- creating a legacy for your child

In Unexpecting, bereaved mom Rachel Lewis is the friend you never hoped to need, walking you through the unique grief of baby loss. When nothing about life after loss makes sense . . . this book will.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764237713
• ISBN13: 9780764237713
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An important book!

This is such an important book. I lost my baby 8 years ago. At the time, I felt lonely about it and it seemed as though so many people around me didn’t know what to say or how to act. It was a topic of secrecy..which was only more isolating. I remember feeling frustrated that family members wanted me to just move on as if nothing had happened. I wish I’d had this book then. Even all of these years later, this book still helped me. Our pain lives inside us long after the traumatic time has passed. Processing it is healing, whether it happened 2 months ago or many years. Processing also doesn’t mean forgetting. This book creates space for remembering and honoring your baby and yourself. I love that Rachel included information about what our bodies go through after baby loss. I appreciated the perspective of male partners offered in the book. Unexpected is affirming of our real and valid pain.