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Choosing Naia : a family's journey / Mitchell Zuckoff.
- Title
- Choosing Naia : a family's journey / Mitchell Zuckoff.
- Author
- Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Publication
- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2002.
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- Description
- x, 301 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Follows the experiences of one couple after they learn their unborn child has Down syndrome, discussing how the ability to diagnose problems in the womb forces would-be parents to confront difficult and life-altering decisions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-298).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Don't worry, mom, everything will be fine -- If you are going to cry, you cry later. It blinds your eyes -- I'm just so sick of having to deal with discrimination -- The miracle you pray for might not be the miracle you receive -- I'm really sorry to have to tell you this -- What do people usually do? -- This child will cause trauma and tragedy from the first breath -- So, you're just going to go with the abortionist? -- No problem -- There's nothing to be sorry about. I'm not sorry-- I can't remember the last time the baby kicked -- We don't have more time -- Hello, sweet baby, hello -- We had to give her the chance to make it -- What do the other nine people know that we don't? -- She's not pink -- I didn't get my kiss from Naia this morning -- It's like her birth, when she didn't cry -- Naia is a miracle just as she is -- Da-Da! -- We have the encycopedia, but we don't have Hamlet -- You kind of know you can live through it -- Naia! Come back! -- Your family is always there for you -- I think we should talk about it more.
- ISBN
- 0807028169 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807028177 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2002006201
- OCLC
- 49750319
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library