Hi, guys. Welcome back to Prev Alliance podcast. This is Sarah. In today's episode, I am so excited

to bring to you guys someone that I'm getting to know, and I hope that you will learn a lot from

as I am. Sarah Hayaseki. I'm sorry if I've murdered your last name.

She is one of the co-founders of Izzy Lee, a wonderful baby's company that I've totally sent

the link to several of my friends and say, hey, you got newborns, you guys need this, babies.

But more importantly, she's here because this month is October. And this is the month that

we take a minute and we hear

and share stories of those who have experienced infant loss and to really hear her story and how

she's overcome such an unimaginable grief and what she's doing to help others. So Sarah, welcome.

Thank you. And thanks for having me on here. So just to go back to my story,

my husband and I moved to Maine in 2016 and were, you know, excited to get pregnant with our first

daughter in 2017. I had a very normal pregnancy. I, you know, you're kind of naive, excited. Like, you don't know

very much in the beginning. Everything went along very normally until the very last week when I was

38 weeks pregnant. And I started noticing, huh, I haven't really felt her move that much today.

And my sister was visiting for the day.

And she was like, oh, don't worry about it. We'll just, we'll stop into the doctors. This happened to me, like the baby's run out of room at the end. So I just figured, oh, we'll go to the doctor.

Everything will be fine. But I just had this like gut instinct and like kind of pit in my stomach.

Like something felt off.

So my sister and I went into the appointment and they could not find the heartbeat.

They were doing a non-stress test and they kept finding my heartbeat.

And my sister was like, don't panic, don't panic.

You know, this happens.

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