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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