Hush: True Stories of Pregnancy-Related Death & Near-Miss in the U.S.A. (Amazon, July 2022)
Interviews with women who survived harrowing near-miss experiences due to complications of childbirth, postpartum and medical error, and with men who lost their wives in childbirth. Gut wrenching, deeply personal, and painful truths about their experiences, the care and support they got (or did not get), and how they turned grief into purpose. This book exams without judgement the patient and their spouse/partner’s perspective.
Hush: True Stories of Pregnancy-Related Death & Near-Miss in the U.S.A. (Volume 2) (Fall 2022)
The second edition of Interviews with women who survived harrowing near-miss experiences due to complications of childbirth, postpartum and medical error, and with men and family members who lost their wives in childbirth. (Accepting stories).
Hush: The Caregiver’s Perspective (Spring, 2023)
Interviews with nurses, obstetricians, midwives and doulas who managed life threatening complications of childbirth, postpartum and medical error. This second part of the series exams the impact these traumas have on those whose life work is to bring life into this world. (Accepting stories.)
Save a Mother’s Life: Talk about Maternal Death and Near-Miss in the U.S.
How do you Talk about Maternal Death? Share her Story
An Open Letter to Kim Kardashian
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