Someone Came Before You

This gets the feelings right to some extent, but it is pretty specific to the couple in the book--riding bikes, and other activities that not everyone does. So it might not feel like you are reading a story about you and your family. It's also religious, which will not resonate with everyone. Better than nothing, although it is basically impossible to read something like this to a younger-sibling toddler and keep it together.FYI--this book is about a family that had a stillbirth or neonatal loss, rather than an early miscarriage (based on the pictures and behavior). You can decide whether it is for you.

Very lovely book. We bought this for our daughter who is going to be two in a few weeks. She is the baby that came after the loss of our son at 18 weeks gestation. Both of our older children know about our baby boy who died, but we were at a loss for how to introduce our baby girl to her big brother who isn't with us.I looked through a lot of different books, but finally settled on this one. I'm really glad that I did. The book talks about how the mom and dad wanted a baby so much, and that they loved the baby they were having from the beginning and has simple not too busy pictures to follow along with the story. The book presents the baby's death in an easy to understand way and didn't use elusive terms like "passed on", it states very clearly that the baby died. I like that it goes into the grief that the parents felt after losing their baby, and how it made them sad and how they just wanted their baby. It follows along to show that while the parents miss and love their baby that they lost, their hearts grew bigger to welcome the new child that came after.It's such lovely book and it's going to take a little while for me to get used to reading it before I read it to my girl. I cry every time I read it. The back of the book has some ideas for how to introduce your child that came after to the baby who came before. In my opinion this is a really good book and I definitely recommend it!

This is the best book I have found geared toward children that come into the world after the death of a sibling. I took the advice of another reviewer and read this book, out loud to myself a few times and bawled like a baby. I haven't read it to my son yet because he's still pretty young (21 months), but he has started looking at pictures of his older brothers (our twins were stillborn 3 years ago) and we talk about them, so I expect that we'll be reading this book soon. It's very applicable for our situation and I love how it explains everything. I especially appreciate the section at the end that explains how to deal with your grief with children that are born following the loss. It has helped me in how I approach the subject with my son.

I ordered this book for my Son & daughter in law who lost their unborn son in 2014 at 34 weeks gestation. My daughter in law wanted it for her other children especially the one born after the still birth to help them better understand and not to forget their brother in heaven. I must say I opened it when it came and read the book. It's very emotional for the people (adults) involved but is written so well for the children. I would HIGHLY recommend this book.

I got this book for my son, who was born after my first son was stillborn. It is perfect to describe the feelings and emotions to a little child, to let them know of their brother or sister.......Especially great as I have her other book for my older children. Highly recommended

I have two wonderful rainbow children. Their older brother was lost before they were born. My husband and I have struggled with telling them about their older brother and why we do things that remember him and remember him at holiday times. This book was a nice simple way to talk more about it. My son connected with the book and recognized similar things that we do in our house for his older brother. A word of caution for any angel mother who is going to read this...it is a simple book and it hit me hard when I tried to read it to my son the first time. Seeing his reaction made it better, but I was simply crying through it the first time.

I bought this for myself after our twins were stillborn and we then were lucky enough to have another baby. He is now 3 and we make no secret of the twins. we will probably tell him about his sisters, and perhaps the book will help us but quite honestly it has been a help to us more than anything. My mother found it by accident and was blown away. I ended up buying it again for her. My brother died 47 years ago aged 4 days and she got no help back then. She treasures her copy. I recommend this book to anyone who has lost a baby, not just to help children (I am not there yet) but as a help to a parent.

I liked this book, only I feel it didn't quite send the message we want to give our children about their brother (our first born). I guess every story is different, and this was theirs. It did give me an outline to maybe put together our own story for our kids.