Essential Reads for Women Facing Reproductive Trauma

This poetic and probing and thoughtful work explores infertility from every angle; it is essential reading.

The author writes of her own miscarriage experience but is also a practitioner in women's reproductive mental health. The resulting account—at once intimate and universal—is full of compassion.

There’s much comfort to be found in this reminder that life’s periods of hardship are inevitable, and not without ways to cope and care for oneself.

This children's book is so moving in its stark, simple truths about life's joys and sorrows. It hits me every time.

When you’re too exhausted for a complete book, this is a pick-up-then-put-down collection of one-off wisdoms to guide you through all manner of challenges.

When one of the most impressive women in the world shares her struggles to conceive, it’s worth paying attention to the wisdom and insights she gained along the way.

Levity is often scarce on this path. Klein’s book will help you find it.

A stunning book detailing the stillbirth of the author’s daughter, Simone. It is about mothers and daughters, love and grief, all told with grace and urgency; I read it faster than I’ve read any book in recent memory because I couldn’t put it down.

So much smart and thought-provoking analysis is woven throughout this slim book. I’m grateful for all the ways it made me think.