1. My Pen, My Friend.
- Author
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Thiele, Pauline
- Subjects
INFANT death ,EXPERIENCE ,PREMATURE infants ,PSYCHOLOGY of parents ,POETRY (Literary form) ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
At 18 weeks' gestation, we were told that our son was not going to live. Left to cope on my own, I turned to the paper and pen and poured out my feeling and fears on paper. For the next couple of years, I was to spend many hours dotting all the “i”s and crossing all the “t”s to make sure every detail was correct. In this short article, I share briefly an introduction followed by a poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015
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