{"id":11,"date":"2023-12-01T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicguidetomiscarriage.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2024-01-18T23:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:01:50","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catholicguidetomiscarriage.com\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About the book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Losing a child is devastating. For Catholic parents who lose a child before or shortly after birth, this profound grief often comes with distinctive, sudden, and difficult questions about God, the Church, and who they are now as parents to the child they have lost. Why did God let this happen? Where is my baby? Can the Church help me make sense of this? What do we do now?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss<\/em>, Abigail Jorgensen serves as a companion and guide through perinatal loss in light of Catholic teaching. She addresses difficult medical, theological, and practical questions asked by loss parents and the friends, family, pastors, ministers, and medical professionals who support them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jorgensen has first-hand experience, both as a mother who has lost children in miscarriage and as a Catholic bereavement doula\u2014someone who walks with families through early child loss. Through her own experiences, she discovered how hard it can be to find adequate answers and spiritual help from the within the Church, so she wrote the book that she and her clients have needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first-of-its-kind resource blends Jorgensen\u2019s professional expertise with the wisdom of the Church to provide an essential guide through the most pressing concerns that arise during this difficult time. Drawing on the Bible, the Church\u2019s prayer traditions, the saints, sacraments, official teaching documents, and grief support research, Jorgensen offers comfort, hope, and compassionate responses to tough questions, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n