Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle

The Journey Toward Healing After Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Child Loss

By: Hallie Scott

Narrated by: Simona Chitescu-Weik

Tens of thousands of women and families every year lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. The statistics are sobering--between 10% and 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1% in stillbirth, and nearly 23,000 babies die before their first birthday--but statistics alone miss the depth of the hurt. Each loss is personal and devastating.

No woman is prepared to lose a baby, and caregivers are often unaware of how best to help. In Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle therapist Hallie Scott first shares her own story, as a mother whose only child, Abigail, was stillborn, and then leads you through a healing process that makes space for heartbreak, despair, guilt, questions, and anger. Life is never the same in the wake of the loss, but a new normal is possible.

The book will be a welcome resource for families who have lost a child, as well as for those seeking to care for them in their traumatic grief.

Discussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Beautiful but heartbreaking

Hard to listen to without crying but that’s apart of grieving the loss of a dream. I’m glad to know that my grieving process is fine and right now it’s okay to just worry about myself.