GS3 - Two Kisses for Maddy

Title: GS3 - Two Kisses for Maddy

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • Describe the impact of maternal mortality on the family
  • List strategies to decrease maternal mortality
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  • Submission Description:
    Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-- to make a life for Maddy. In his memoir, Two Kisses for Maddy, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace.
    Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
    Hall B (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Presenting Author:
    Matt Logelin
    Moderator:
    Emily Drake, RN, PhD
    The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.