Your Baby Will Find You: A Story About Grief, Loss, and Healing

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A powerful, exquisitely illustrated book for those experiencing miscarriage and pregnancy loss that provides understanding, comfort, and healing

This is you.

This is you and your baby.

When this was you, you thought about the future a lot.

You felt destined to be a mama, and hoped your baby would find you soon.

Pregnancy loss affects as many as one-third of all pregnancies. Yet this painful experience is rarely spoken about, making it all the more difficult for those going through it the space they need to grieve and heal.

With lyrical, poignant text from Madeleine Garner and illustrations from data designer Giorgia Lupi, Your Baby Will You Find You holds readers gently as they work through their emotional rollercoaster , and helps them envision a life after lossone that is full of joy alongside the sadness, no matter what might happen next.

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Your Baby Will Find You untangles the complex emotions that arise when we are forced to let go of unrealized dreams due to pregnancy loss. Garner and Lupis vision is all at once heartbreaking, comforting, and validating.
Kelly Cervantes, USA Today bestselling author of Normal Broken


Garners spare, lyrical text paired with Lupis poignant line drawings makes for a gut punch of a read. A deeply moving, original book that will surely resonate with anyone who has dealt with loss around conception. In a wordexquisite.
Azadeh Westergaard, author and illustrator of The One and Only Googoosh

Madeleines book achieves that rare-but-essential blend of compassionate reflection and evocative visual art, serving as an empathetic companion for those navigating perinatal loss and infertility and wondering, what now
Rebecca Soffer, author of The Modern Loss Handbook

Your Baby Will Find You provides a heartfelt, authentic depiction of the isolating experience of a fertility journey that does not go where one hopes. Garner skillfully untangles this complex version of grief in a digestible way that gives voice to an experience of loss that is too often voiceless, and takes us through the many layers of emotion that must unfold on our way towards acceptance."
Dr. Dan Wolfson, clinical psychologist and grief specialist

Madeleine Garners Your Baby Will Find You says in 750 words what we as a society have denied our hopeful parents for millennia . . . Who knew a long form poem (gorgeously illustrated by Giorgia Lupi) would make concrete what so many of us seek: affirmation that our experience as parents-who-have-not-yet 'been found' is a real, full, and valid one.
Alexandra Silber, author of White Hot Grief Parade

Madeleine Gardners beautiful book peels back the layers of our relationships to our bodies and our beings. She lays bare the complex truths of who we hope to be and helps us make peace with who we have actually become, holding the many aspects of humanity together in one short story.
Vanessa Kroll Bennett, coauthor of This Is So Awkward

Your Baby Will Find You is a powerful book that is bound to resonate with any woman. It will take you on a journey through joy, sadness, warmth, fear and love. The illustrations are lovely and tender. If you have ever been through pregnancy or hope to one day, I would recommend reading this story.
Bartley Chavez, entrepreneur, influencer, and creator of @BytheSeaMommyandMe

With quietly poignant storytelling and moving illustrations, Your Baby Will Find You shines a light on the hidden and misunderstood grief of miscarriage with tender, empathetic honesty. This book is the perfect gift of companionship and reassurance to anyone healing from a loss and seeking the strength to try again.
Tori Press, author of How to Feel Better

Your Baby Will Find You is a unique journey through the excitement of early pregnancy, the pain of baby loss and the long and unpredictable pathway of healing. There is a beautiful simplicity to the words and illustrations that will bring both sadness and hope to anyone who has suffered the darkness of pregnancy loss.
Bex Gunn, cofounder of The Worst Girl Gang Ever

When I first read Your Baby Will Find You I knew it would become a companion, a colleague even, in my work as a midwife. This book is a balm, from somebody who had the recipe because she needed it too . . . My hope is that well loved copies of it are read and shared, that it will become as synonymous with 'I love you as a bowl of homemade soupsimple, comforting, perfect.'"
Emily Moonbeam Varnam, midwife and doula

In the field of perinatal mental health, loss is often not given the weight and focus it deserves. Expectations of the grieving parents and those around them (both personal and professional) are to let go, move on, and be grateful for what they haveall fine goals, but healing is neither simple nor linear. Thank you for this absolutely beautiful, genuine, and unique resource that will speak to our clients.
Shoshana S. Bennett, PhD, perinatal mental health psychologist

If you have experienced pregnancy loss, youre not alone. This book aims to show the world that pregnancy loss is not a taboo topic. Though you will never forget your baby, you can manage your grief and heal. If youre looking to become a parent, one day your baby will find you.
Elaine Keller-Duemig, certified nurse-midwife at Central Park Midwifery

Author Bio

Madeleine Garner is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her play, I Ragazzi, cowritten with her father, Broadway writer David Goldsmith, was published in 2023 by the Dramatists Play Service and is now available for licensing. Garner was accepted into the Spring 2023 Woodward Residency in RIdgewood, Queens where she worked on her childrens books. Garner currently works at Pentagram Design and received her BA in art history and Italian studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2012. She resides with her husband, baby, and cat.

Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer and partner at Pentagram Design whose work synthesizes data and storytelling in innovative ways to create unique and singular brand expressions. One of the most lauded designers of her generation and a prominent voice in the field of data design, Lupi was the 2022 recipient of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2022 she also received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her TED Talk on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has published two books, Dear Data (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), exploring the details of daily life through hand-drawn visual data; and Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), a guided journal for collecting visual data.