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| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| In Memory of Samuel Yves Lyman Laigle | |
| Defining SIDS | |
| What SIDS Is and What SIDS Is Not | |
| Consider the Numbers | |
| SIDS Then and Now: A Personal and Political History | |
| Baby Ben | |
| Empty Arms | |
| A Mental Replay of Thursday, March 21, 1991 | |
| Untitled | |
| From Death to Life with Meloni | |
| The Sitting Time | |
| Grief's Healing Rage | |
| To the Man Upstairs | |
| How Can Therapy Help with Guilt? | |
| The Women in My Family | |
| Grasping at Straws To Blame Ourselves | |
| Footprints | |
| Angel | |
| For Allen Douglas Alvey, III | |
| One Point of View | |
| "Why? Why Me?" | |
| A Grandmother Asks, "Why?" | |
| SIDS | |
| Desiree Spencer Stamps | |
| The Unique Burden of Fathers | |
| The Missing Person: An Interview with Pete Petit of Healthdyne | |
| An Awesome Dream | |
| My Would-Be Perfect Family | |
| Surviving a Bereaved Wife | |
| Always in My Heart | |
| Amy, Amy | |
| My Brother | |
| He Should Have Been My Best Man: An Interview with Curtis Schweitzer | |
| Helping Siblings Cope with Death | |
| Sadness in May | |
| How We Helped Our Children...and How They Helped Us | |
| Excerpts from "The Haunting Memory of SIDS" | |
| For My Baby Sister Stephanie | |
| What Mister Rogers Has To Say: An Interview with Hedda Sharapan | |
| Oh, for the Purely Material Losses | |
| A Letter to My Grandson, Jacob Barlowe Kruse | |
| Life's Miracle | |
| The Double Hurt of Grandparents | |
| Sweet Memories of Jacob Barlowe Kruse | |
| Forgive Me, My Daughter | |
| As Child-Care Providers, It's Our Baby, Too | |
| Catey | |
| The Dos and Don'ts of Helping a SIDS Survivor | |
| A Friend's Memory of William Kendal Herrera | |
| Letter from a Friend | |
| Untitled | |
| Just Say, "I'm Sorry" | |
| Befriending the Grieving | |
| A Comforting Note from Friends in England | |
| Obituary of Christian Horchler | |
| A Christian Celebration of Christian | |
| William David Waugh | |
| Eulogy for Margaret Hood Schuth: A Gift from Her Mother | |
| Planning a Special Funeral | |
| The Funeral Director and Home: An Interview with Melonie Wilhelm Wagner | |
| "How Many Children Do You Have?" | |
| The Glass Half Full | |
| Going Out into the World Again | |
| How I Survived My Baby's Death | |
| Learning To Live Again | |
| A Letter to Michael | |
| Memories of My Daughter | |
| A Prayer for Spring | |
| Surviving Anniversaries and Holidays | |
| How Therapy Can Help with Milestones | |
| A Letter to LaChelle | |
| Kathy's Day | |
| Marking the Milestones When You Have Lost Your Only Child | |
| Professional Help | |
| Untitled | |
| A SIDS Parent Counseling SIDS Survivors | |
| Hitting It Off with a Counselor: An Interview with Mike Hitch | |
| My Lifeline: An Interview with Gwen Robinson | |
| Dos and Don'ts for Emergency Responders | |
| Baby Not Breathing: An Interview with Mark Stillpass | |
| SIDS and the Homicide Detective: An Interview with J. Richard Salen and Steve Kerpelman | |
| The "Suspicious" Loss of Twins | |
| The Role of the Medical Examiner | |
| Thoughts on a Subsequent Pregnancy | |
| Another Baby with Dark Brown Eyes | |
| Celine | |
| Room for More Angels | |
| The Haunting Memory of SIDS | |
| Forever in Our Hearts | |
| A Clinical View of Monitoring | |
| Tips for Home Monitoring: An Interview with Barb Follett of Kirson Medical Equipment | |
| When You've Lost Your Only Boy or Only Girl | |
| The Effect of Premonitions of SIDS on Grieving and Healing | |
| Life After SIDS: What is Possible? | |
| Twenty-Four Years Later: The Arlette Schweitzer Story | |
| How Therapy Can Help Us Move Forward | |
| Letter to Justin | |
| Letter to Michelle Elizabeth Dickerson | |
| Letter from My Child | |
| Thirty Years Later, a Look at Peter's Gifts: An Interview with George Keeler and Kay Keeler | |
| Moving Forward by Raising Money To Fight SIDS: An Interview with Susan Hollander of the CJ Foundation for SIDS | |
| Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep | |
| The Sailing Ship | |
| Rise Up Slowly, Angel | |
| For Anyone Who Has Lost a Child | |
| Ryan | |
| My New Home | |
| A Letter from Grandma Nelson | |
| Chad: Our Little Angel | |
| Michael Carroll Hitch | |
| Jake | |
| As Days Go By | |
| For Zachary | |
| Another Teardrop Falls | |
| Ode to Jasmine | |
| Reliving the Years | |
| For Alyssa Marie Shaver | |
| Epilogue | |
| Appendix | |
| Bibliography | |
| About Joani Nelson Horchler | |
| About Robin Rice Morris | |
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