The Podcast is Back!
It's official!!
The podcast is back!
And after 96 episodes as Pregnancy, Loss & Motherhood, it has a new name:
The Grief-Informed Perinatal Care Podcast.
This change has been sitting with me for a while because the podcast and honestly, my work, has grown into something much bigger than sharing my own experience with pregnancy loss and motherhood.
Those 96 episodes matter deeply to me.
They hold Evelyn.
They hold pieces of my family.
They hold my mental health journey after stillbirth.
They hold conversations for grieving families and the people supporting them.
None of that is going away.
But this next chapter is about what we do with what we've learned.
It's about the practice of care.
And Episode 97 begins with one sentence that pretty much explains exactly why I made this change:
“The baby died, but somehow everyone forgot that the mother still gave birth.”
Because when a baby dies, postpartum doesn't disappear.
The mother or birthing parent still has a postpartum body.
Hormones still crash.
Milk may still come in.
Partners are grieving.
Siblings are grieving.
Families are trying to figure out how to go home without the baby they expected to bring with them.
And then, far too often, care ends.
That is the gap I want us to start talking about.
In this episode, I break down what grief-informed perinatal care actually means to me and why it has to include: the postpartum experience, the entire family system, continuity from hospital to home, and the professionals doing this incredibly heavy work, too.
And I leave professionals with one very simple question:
Who is going to call this family, and when?
Not “someone should follow up.”
A name.
A date.
A plan.
If you can't answer that question, you may have just found one of the gaps in your own system.
And that is where change can start.
Episode 97: The Baby Died. The Mother Still Gave Birth.
Listen to the first episode of the newly relaunched Grief-Informed Perinatal Care Podcast now.
And if you're a doula, nurse, midwife, therapist, newborn care specialist, chaplain, hospital professional or anyone else working with families in the perinatal space, I really want you here for what comes next. We're going to talk about the things that are uncomfortable. The things we don't always know how to fix. And the things families shouldn't have to beg us to notice.
Because “this is how we've always done it” isn't a good enough reason to keep doing it.
See you in your headphones! Or reach out to us here :)
