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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.
This Lovely Life tells, with brilliant intensity, of 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. In the end, the longdelayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman's intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother's fierce love for her children.
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John Magar
reviewed This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood on January 21, 2013 This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood
Wow. this staggered me. it's the memoir of a woman who gave birth to catastrophically premature twins, a boy & a girl. when she learned that she was in preterm labor, she recognized that her babies were likely to be very, very sick, if they survived at all, & she begged the doctors to let them go rather than performing heroic feats of resuscitation. but her doctors refused, & refused again when she asked for a DNR order in the NICU. it was kind of shocking to read about how these doctors disregarded her wishes, knowing that they were saving these babies for what would most likely be foreshortened lives full of medical traumas.
it's not really a spoiler to report that the girl twin died after four days. the boy twin survived, but was in the NICU & the pediatric intensive care unit for a year & a half. really puts my 24 days in the NICU with my daughter into perspective. she only cooked for six weeks longer than these babies...what a difference that makes when we are talking about fetal development.
i don't really want to go into too much detail about the book, so i will just say that it was amazing & sad & so many things. maybe my emotional reaction to it was due to being so recently post-partum & having had my own NICU experience...this probably isn't a great book to read if you are pregnant or if your micro-preemie is currently in the NICU, because it's terrifying in a lot of ways. but i'm glad i read it, & i regret that this review is failing so woefully at expressing my feelings.
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