Format:
Book
Title:
This lovely life : a memoir of premature motherhood / Vicki Forman.
Author:
Forman, Vicki.
Call Number:
618.92011 FORMAN
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.
Description:
vii, 263 p. ; 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.
Subjects:
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.
Forman, Vicki.
ISBN:
9780547232751
0547232756