Megan Nix, REMEDIES FOR SORROW: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Writer Megan Nix joins Zibby to discuss REMEDIES FOR SORROW, a compulsively readable memoir and urgent call to action about a hidden risk to pregnant women: the congenital cytomegalovirus. Megan shares the story of discovering her daughter’s microcephaly at thirty-six weeks pregnant, and the subsequent challenges of raising a baby with CMV (against the dramatic landscape of Sitka, Alaska, where her husband is a salmon fisherman). The conversation delves into her advocacy work, the lack of awareness about CMV, and the importance of universal screening for newborns and support for affected families. She also discusses the writing process and the challenge of finding a publisher.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank,
0:12.0	pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner,
0:17.8	and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place. In fact, we call it the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zivieverse, and we're going with it. Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens. Megan Nix is the author of Remedies for Sorrow, an Extraord, a secret kept from pregnant women, and a mother's pursuit of the truth.
0:40.6	Megan is a mother of five. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Denver Post, and elsewhere.
0:47.1	She regularly speaks to medical audiences and hospital systems about congenital CMV and was the keynote speaker at Moderna Inc. in March of 2020.
0:56.2	Megan and her family divide their time between Colorado and Alaska, where her husband fishes for a living.
1:01.4	Welcome, Megan. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss
1:05.9	your memoir, Remedies for Sorrow, An Extraordinary Child, a secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of
1:12.9	The Truth. Welcome.
1:14.1	Thank you so much for having me, Zibi.
1:16.5	So tell listeners about your story, about your daughter, about what happened, your advocacy,
1:23.5	all of it.
1:24.9	Just start from the beginning.
1:26.3	Okay.
1:26.6	And the fact that you live in alaska and
1:28.6	colorado and i mean you're such a this is amazing like the backdrop of the story is just sensational so
1:34.7	okay go for it okay so i'm in colorado now and yes we live in alaska for about four months of the
1:42.7	year during salmon fishing season where my husband's
1:46.2	professional fisherman in Sitka, Alaska. And in 2015, I was pregnant with our second child.
1:54.7	And I had a pretty typical pregnancy until 36 weeks. And I say typical, but intuitively I knew something
2:04.7	was different. And I would turn sideways in the mirror and I just looked small to myself.
2:11.5	And my OB and the midwives at the practice that I go to where you kind of cycle between them,
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