In our mother-blaming culture, women who make unconventional choices find themselves under fire. And Elizabeth Heineman makes unusual choices. She has a baby at an advanced maternal age, chooses home birth with a midwife, and then, when her baby is born dead, she spends time with him. In Ghostbelly, Heineman's brave, disarming and stunning memoir, she recounts her indescribable grief after delivering a stillborn son, her extraordinary and intimate bonding with the baby's body before the burial and the impossible task of saying goodbye.