Jess Garoutte’s Reviews > I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America > Status Update
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"we learned that people have created their own mourning and grieving rituals to commemorate their losses in the absence of societally proscribed ones. This ad hoc effort includes the making or buying of totems, and there's a growing online marketplace devoted to jewelry, keepsake boxes, and other talismans that intend to make the intangible tangible." pg xxxii
— Aug 07, 2025 11:10AM
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Jess Garoutte
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"how she could simply have another baby. Suggesting she could look forward to another pregnancy felt like a betrayal, swapping one baby for the next, and there was no guarantee it was even possible." pg xxiii
— Aug 07, 2025 11:12AM
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"Colleen was shocked by how infrequently people would talk about what happened; some of her family never even mentioned it once. She felt like she couldn't talk about it either. After her stillborn son, a priest told Rebecca that he didn't need to pray for the baby because he was already in heaven, so she shouldn't feel sad." pg xxiii
— Aug 07, 2025 11:08AM
Jess Garoutte
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"Suggesting she could look forward to another pregnancy felt like a betrayal, swapping one baby for the next, and there was no guarantee it was even possible." page xxiii
— Aug 07, 2025 11:07AM
