Libby Weintraub on Stillbirth, Poetry, and Processing Grief
Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen
Headgum
4.7 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
October is Pregnancy/Infant Loss Awareness Month. Author Libby Weintraub recounts her experience with stillbirth, and the long process of working through the shock and grief of that.
Libby’s book She Was Born: Words on Loss and Liberation is available for purchase here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/she-was-born
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Broad Ideas. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, guys. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you, Rachel. |
| 0:09.7 | Hi. |
| 0:10.5 | Hi. |
| 0:11.6 | So today, first of all, October is the National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. |
| 0:19.3 | So we have an episode. First, we would like |
| 0:22.9 | to acknowledge that we talk about things that could potentially be triggering. It's very open and |
| 0:30.6 | honest and vulnerable and beautiful, but we just want to put that out there before you listen, |
| 0:37.1 | but we really encourage everyone to listen to this beautiful human, Libby Weintraub, |
| 0:42.2 | who is one of Olivia's best friends, came to tell her story and share her story with us and wrote a book. |
| 0:48.5 | And it's really an incredible journey and story and perspective and all of it. So we encourage you to |
| 0:56.3 | stay on the line. And it really, it stayed with me for a long time after. And it will. And it |
| 1:06.9 | will. I think it might do the same. So let's have Libby. |
| 1:22.9 | Sometimes when the world feels insane, you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little brain. |
| 1:29.3 | All these thoughts are swirling round round and round inside, to join us on this journey as we take a little ride. |
| 1:35.3 | We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. |
| 1:38.3 | We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. |
| 1:41.3 | We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. |
| 1:44.8 | We'll talk about death because people die. |
| 1:49.8 | You know what happened this morning I was getting ready. |
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