How can I grieve the loss of my baby while celebrating his life?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches McKall and addresses the question “How can I grieve the loss of my baby while celebrating his life?” Grief and loss are hard, especially when saying hello and goodbye to someone at the same time. It is important to find support, seek counseling, gather with family and friends, and celebrate the life of your child. During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides McKall through feelings of fear that once it’s not so painful to think about, she will not remem...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I'm so happy to welcome McCall to the show today.
0:48.4	Thanks for being on the podcast, McCall.
0:50.8	Thank you for having me.
0:52.7	What is your question for me today?
0:55.2	So my question is, how can I properly grieve the loss of my baby but simultaneously
1:00.6	celebrate his life and becoming a mother?
1:03.7	Hmm.
1:04.5	Okay.
1:04.9	Tell me more.
1:06.1	Tell me what happened.
1:07.8	So in July, I went in for a 20-week ultrasound. And my baby was diagnosed with a genetic
1:18.2	anomaly that is not compatible with life. It was a skeletal dysplasia that didn't allow his
1:26.7	rib cage to grow big enough to support his lungs, his heart, his other organs.
1:33.5	So, yeah, it was very devastating, still really fresh.
1:38.4	Yeah, that's not that long ago.
1:41.0	Oh, my gosh.
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