When your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss are common, they’re not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don’t know how to support you.

What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate what comes next, such as: 

• coping with a postpartum body without a baby in your arms
• facing social isolation and grief invalidation
• wrestling with faith when you feel let down by God
• dealing with the overwhelming process of making everyday decisions
• learning to move forward after loss
• creating a legacy for your child

In Unexpecting, bereaved mom Rachel Lewis is the friend you never knew you’d need, walking you through the unique grief of baby loss. When nothing about life after loss makes sense . . . this book will.

“The guide that all parents experiencing pregnancy loss need when leaving the hospital grief-stricken, without a baby in their arms,” Lindsey M. Henke, founder of Pregnancy After Loss Support

RACHEL LEWIS is the founder of Brave Mamas, an online community offering support to thousands of bereaved moms. Rachel is a well-known contributor to Still Standing magazine and Pregnancy After Loss Support. Her work and family have been featured by the Today show, Upworthy, AdoptUSKids, and Babble. Rachel has experienced the loss of five pregnancies, as well as the unique grief of reunifying a foster son with his birth family.