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This lovely life : a memoir of premature motherhood / Vicki Forman.

Title: This lovely life : a memoir of premature motherhood / Vicki Forman.
Author: Forman, Vicki
Publication: Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.

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vii, 263 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go"--She knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube. Learn what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins -- the harrowing medical interventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death.

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Genre/Form

Biography
Case Reports
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
Narratives.
Études de cas.
Autobiographies.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Awards (note)

Pen Award for Creative Non-fiction, 2010

ISBN

9780547232751
0547232756
9780547394404
0547394403

LCCN

2008053285

OCLC

281099272
SCSB-12305485

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Harvard Library