Chapter One: There Are No Words: The Inadequacy of the Language for Pregnancy Loss
Chapter Two: How to Make an American Baby: The Modern Resonance of Reproduction in Earlier Eras
Chapter Three: Hey, We Might Actually Survive This: Medical and Social Advances in Pregnancy
Chapter Five: The Puppetry of the Fetus: How Images of the Unborn Redefined Abortion and Miscarriage
Chapter Six: Medical Mystery: Scientific Uncertainty That Comes from Ignoring the Right Questions
Chapter Seven: Nothing about This Is Simple: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Other Complications
Chapter Eight: Sick and Dying: How Discrimination Creates Circumstances for Pregnancy Loss
Chapter Nine: How Birthing Bodies Are Regulated: The Laws That Increasingly Govern Pregnancy
Chapter Ten: Politicians, Restrictions, and Laws, Oh My!: The Mess When We Mix Politics and Medicine
Chapter Eleven: When Pregnancy Loss Is a Crime: The Legal Peril around the Loss of a Baby
Chapter Twelve: Life and Death Certificates: How a Piece of Paper Came to Define Loss
Part IV: The Making of Meaning
Chapter Thirteen: The Stories We Tell: Myths and Narratives around Pregnancy and Loss
Chapter Fourteen: Talismans: The Growing Market for Objects That Commemorate Loss
Chapter Fifteen: Mourning Rituals: Muddling through a Way to Grieve