Embracing Laura: The Grief and Healing Following the Death of an Infant Twin

By Martha Wegner

This book is for anyone who has experienced the death of an infant twin. It is the story of how one family learned to embrace the life of the child they lost, while rejoicing in the miracle of the surviving twin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Oct 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483440132

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Embracing Laura

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The grief and healing following the death of an infant twin

Martha Wegner

Copyright © 2015 Martha Wegner.

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-4014-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-4013-2 (e)

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 10/26/2015

Contents

The Diagnosis

A Death In The Family

Preparations

Her Sister’s Life And Death

Birth

Grief

A Mother’s Grief, A Father’s Grief

My Children’s Journeys

Friends And Strangers

Speaking Up For Laura

Recovering The Truth

Divided Loyalties

In Another’s Care

A Sugar Maple

The Pain That Remains

Redemption

Embracing Laura

Suggestions

Dear Dr. Nelson,

Following the referral from your office, this 38-year-old married white female … presented to the Perinatal Diagnostic and Testing Center of this hospital for ultrasound evaluation to rule out twins. Ms. Wegner had been suspicious of the possibility of twins