Sids & Infant Death Survival Guide: Information & Comfort for Grieving Family & Friends & Professionals Who Seek to Help Them

Formerly THE SIDS SURVIVAL GUIDE, this anthology was re-named in 2003 to reflect a broader readership. Revised and updated for 2003, it provides new research information and new articles and poems by parents who've lost children to SIDS and other deaths such as suffocation. Nineteen chapters cover everything from the particular grief of mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents, and child-care providers to guilt, anger, dreams, premonitions, peer and professional support, planning funerals, enduring anniversaries, and having subsequent children.

Joani Nelson Horchler, who lost her only son to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, has dedicated her professional career to research, writing, public speaking and business management. She was an associate editor and writer for INDUSTRY WEEK Magazine, focusing on public policy and management issues, and has had many articles picked up by national wire services and reprinted in major newspapers such as THE WASHINGTON POST. She has also written for THE WASHINGTON TIMES. She has worked for US Senator Tom Daschle and former US Senator James Abourezk. She co-founded a nonprofit children's theatre group, the Cheverly Young Actors' Guild, and serves as its president. Joani now serves as executive director of SIDS Educational Services, a small nonprofit group dedicated to providing empathetic support to bereaved families. Joani and her husband, Gabe, have five daughters, Ilona, Gabrielle, Julianna, Genevieve, and Stephanie, and one son, Christian, who died of SIDS in 1991.