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The Baby Dream – Learning to Live with Infertility and Loss is Narelle Hudson’s heartfelt account of her experiences with infertility and IVF. This autobiography highlights her determination to firmly hold onto her dream of having a baby. It shows how her dream was shaped by society’s conditioning, challenged upon meeting her husband, shaken through many rounds of IVF, realised through pregnancy, and changed through complications she experienced while pregnant.

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Author:   Narelle Hudson (Narelle Hudson)
Publisher:   Animal Dreaming Publishing
Imprint:   Animal Dreaming Publishing
ISBN:  

9780645150124

ISBN 10:   0645150126
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   30 May 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 3 Introduction 11 Part One: Love and the Road to IVF 15 Chapter 1 Family Values 17 Chapter 2 Finding My Prince 20 Chapter 3 Holding the Baby Dream 23 Chapter 4 Children 26 Chapter 5 Doubts and Fears 30 Chapter 6 Questioning the Future 35 Chapter 7 Faith 39 Part Two: The Journey Towards Our Baby 43 Chapter 8 The First Appointment45 Chapter 9 The First Cycle 49 Chapter 10 Isolation 57 Chapter 11 The Second Cycle 60 Chapter 12 Preparing for Another Cycle 63 Chapter 13 The Third Cycle 67 Chapter 14 Messages 75 Chapter 15 Waiting 79 Chapter 16 Control 82 Chapter 17 Turning Thirty 85 Chapter 18 Growth 88 Chapter 19 Apprehension 93 Chapter 20 The Fourth Cycle 99 Chapter 21 Friends 102 Chapter 22 New Directions 104 Chapter 23 The Fifth Cycle 109 Chapter 24 Christmas Day 112 Chapter 25 Dearest Bret 115 Chapter 26 Pregnancy 119 Part Three: Life After Pregnancy 123 Chapter 27 When All is Lost 125 Chapter 28 Losing a Child133 Chapter 29 Saying Goodbye 137 Chapter 30 Dear River 141 Chapter 31 All Alone 145 Chapter 32 One Year On 149 Chapter 33 Incomplete 152 Chapter 34 Marriage Without Children 156 Chapter 35 Six Years Later 160 Chapter 36 The Future 165 Chapter 37 My Authentic Self 170 Afterword 177 About the Author 179

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Narelle Hudson is a counsellor, teacher, healer and author who hopes to inspire people to question possibilities, not accept limits and be brave enough to dream, live and love whole-heartedly so they can be the best version of themselves. The Baby Dream: Learning to Live with Infertility and Loss is her fourth book and it follows two other autobiographical books, Spirit and Soul Channelling which were written about her near-death experience (NDE) after a near-fatal car accident in 2002. The third book, a collection of her poetry about love is called Letting Go. Narelle lives with her husband, Bret, and her Ragdoll cat, Raggles, in Brisbane, Australia, and owns and operates a counselling and natural therapy practice specialising in working with people around grief.

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