Silvie's Life

By Marianne Rogoff

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571430458
• ISBN13: 9781571430458
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Rdr Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

heartbreaking

Imagine a joyous, healthy pregnancy, a well-thought out birth plan, a normal labor, a baby who doesn't cry, who lies limp on her mother, and is raced by helicopter to a hospital with an intensive care nursery. There the nightmare becomes reality, a baby born with severe brain damage, with no identifiable cause. One week after Silvie's birth, her parents are advised to take her home to die. The doctors guessed that she would die in a few days; those days stretched into weeks, accumulated into months. Rogoff's luminous memoir details the conflicting emotions she and her husband felt as they continuously braced themselves for their baby's death. Her descriptions of living in limbo,trying to balance hope with reality, are powerful.

Touching - Couldn't put it down

Beautiful book - inspirational about the meaning of life and death. Picked it up by chance at a used book store and I am glad I did