Loss, Hope & Healing: One Family’s Story Of Turning Grief Into Advocacy

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Getting pregnant was relatively easy for Dani Kilgore and her husband William, who looked forward to growing a family after getting married in 2009. But for Dani, a former teacher and soccer coach who now serves as a pastor in a church, staying pregnant proved challenging. Through miscarriage and preterm labor, a premature birth and devastating infant loss, Dani and William leaned on one another, their faith, and their community even as they navigated a healthcare system that didn’t always appear to have their backs.

In today’s special episode, Dani shares candidly with Meagan about the years that have led up to where she is today: the heartbreak and loss, the learning to trust her own voice as a patient, and the healing and hope that shines through her five-year-old daughter Harper.

This episode contains sensitive topics, including miscarriage and infant loss. We believe it’s important to provide a platform for moms to share pregnancy and birth stories that, while difficult to hear, help all of us understand a fuller spectrum of the motherhood experience. We hope you’ll listen today, but if you cannot, we understand and send you our love.

LINKS MENTIONED:

March of Dimes
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In 2020 we interviewed Ashley Schafluetzel about her daughter’s premature birth and cerebral palsy diagnosis, also in partnership with March of Dimes

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.4	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:22.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour.
0:25.0	I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis.
0:28.0	Hey Megan.
0:29.0	Hey Sarah.
0:31.0	So we're here with another Friday bonus for you. It's fun for us to pop in
0:35.0	unannounced every couple of Fridays or at least once a month, right Megan?
0:39.0	Oh yeah, love it and I'm very excited about today's episode because I am interviewing an awesome mom named Danny Kilgore who you're going to get to know more during this episode.
0:49.0	And this is really, this is kind of a tough one in some places we should mention that this
0:54.2	episode deals with some heavier content including miscarriage pre-maturity and
0:58.4	infant loss so if that's something you're sensitive to just be pre-warned but you know on the other hand if you're
1:04.4	listening with kids around and you're not sure if it's a good episode for
1:07.8	little ears I will say there's nothing graphic in this episode and actually I
1:11.6	thought Danny's attitude was so positive and just so honest in this
1:15.0	interview in this episode and just so honest that this interview might actually help
1:17.0	normalize something that is just so much more common
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