Molar pregnancies are so rare that many doctors go their entire careers
without treating a single case. A woman who receives this diagnosis is
set upon a roller coaster of shock, grief, and fear. In most cases she
not only has miscarried or must end a pregnancy and must mourn the loss
of a baby, but now she also faces an entirely unexpected fear: cancer.
After her own molar pregnancy in 2001, Jennifer Wood created
MyMolarPregnancy.com as a resource and support group for women with
molar pregnancies and choriocarcinoma. Since then, countless women have
found help and shared their own stories to help others. This book
contains nearly three dozen such stories as well as information about
the condition and additional resources. It is the first collection to
focus entirely on the experience-the grief, the confusion, the fear, and
the process of recovery-from the patients' perspectives and lets other
women with this condition know that they are not alone.