Episode 85: Navigating Grief: Support After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Loss with Jessica Zucker

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 85: Navigating Grief: Support After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Loss with Jessica Zucker This week Rachael speaks with psychologist Jessica Zucker about her experiences with miscarriage and her efforts to normalize conversations around women's reproductive health. Jessica shares insights from her books, including 'I Had a Miscarriage' and 'Normalize It', emphasizing the need to break the stigma surrounding these topics. Inside this episode: The ongoing emotional impact of miscarriage and loss How to support friends dealing with loss The often overlooked topic of termination for medical reasons Body image issues post-loss and the pressures women face regarding their bodies And so much more! Mentioned in this episode: Jessica’s website: https://www.drjessicazucker.com/normalize-it Normalize It: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683738144 I Had A Miscarriage: https://www.drjessicazucker.com/i-had-a-miscarriage Jessica’s Instagram: @ihadamiscarriage If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram | Tiktok | Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to No One Told Us, where we tell the truth about parenting and talk about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:09.8	Today I'm so excited to welcome Jessica Zucker, who is a Los Angeles-based psychologist, specializing in reproductive health, and she's the author of the award-winning book, I Had a Miscarriage, a Memoir, a Movement.
0:22.3	Jessica is also the creator of the viral hashtag, I Had a Miscarriage Campaign.
0:27.1	Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue, and Harvard Business Review, among others.
0:33.8	Her new book, Normalize It, Upending, Silence, Stigma and Shame that Shape Women's Lives
0:39.7	is coming out very soon this week, April 22nd. So I'm so excited to dive into this topic.
0:46.1	It's a heavy topic. I will just say content warning to anyone that doesn't want to hear about
0:51.9	these things, but part of your whole platform is normalizing
0:55.0	these conversations and the fact that we should be talking about it. So thank you so much,
0:58.8	Jessica, for joining. Thank you so much for having me. It's wonderful to be here with you.
1:04.0	I want to talk today mostly about your new book, Normalize It, but I would love to hear just a
1:08.8	little bit of a background to people who are maybe new to
1:10.9	your experience with miscarriage. I know that's probably a story we could spend hours on. But what
1:17.4	actually prompted you to want to write a book about your experience and to get I had a miscarriage out
1:24.8	into the world? So as you mentioned, I'm a Los Angeles-based psychologist.
1:30.6	I specialize in women's reproductive and maternal mental health, and I've done so for
1:34.4	about 15 years at this point.
1:37.0	And I come to this field with actually a background in public health.
1:41.8	And so I had worked in international women's health
1:44.7	and women's rights for some time before pursuing my PhD. So my vision for what I would be
1:51.1	specializing in and how I would sort of put together my practice was to bring in the public
1:56.5	health lens and kind of marry it with my interest in the clinical work, which meant that I was
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