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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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Description
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.
Subject
  • Forman, Vicki
  • Premature infants > United States > Biography
  • Premature infants > Care > Case studies
  • Premature infants > Development > Case studies
  • Children with disabilities > United States > Biography
  • Children with disabilities > United States > Case studies
  • Mothers of children with disabilities > United States > Biography
  • People with disabilities
  • Mothers
  • Infant, Premature > growth & development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Prématurés > États-Unis > Biographies
  • Prématurés > Soins > Études de cas
  • Prématurés > Développement > Études de cas
  • Mères d'enfants handicapés > États-Unis > Biographies
  • Personnes handicapées
  • Mères
  • mothers
  • Children with disabilities
  • Mothers of children with disabilities
  • Premature infants
  • Premature infants > Care
  • Premature infants > Development
  • United States
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
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library