Michelle Cottle (AKA. Dear Orla) on parenting after loss

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week I'm chatting with a very special lady, Michelle Cottle, about baby loss, parenting after loss, PND and how she set up her popular blog called Dear Orla. She is incredibly inspiring and has now raised over 20k for Tommy's Charity! Michelle and I chat about what it was like to lose Orla at 37 weeks, being pregnant again with Esme, post natal depression, blogging and working as a psychologist. Hope you enjoy the episode. https://dear-orla.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Motherkind podcast with me, your host,
1:18.6	Zoe Busky.
1:19.7	This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK.
1:23.3	So I've thought long and hard about who would be really amazing to chat to this week.
1:30.9	And I am talking to the incredible Michelle Cottle, who writes the really popular blog and Instagram account called Dear Aller.
1:40.7	So Michelle is a psychologist. She's a clinical psychologist. but that's not what we talk about on this episode.
1:48.8	Michelle has an incredibly sad story to share with us on this episode, which is about baby loss, a really tricky subject, but one that I feel really passionate about sharing and talking
2:03.1	about. And Michelle talks about losing Ola, her baby at 37 weeks, with such bravery and honesty
2:12.2	and wisdom and vulnerability that I challenge you not to cry through this podcast. It's beautiful and Michelle
2:18.9	is an incredible woman and it really was an honour to spend the time that I did with her talking
2:25.2	about this incredibly important subject. So we talk a lot about Aola and about baby loss.
2:32.5	We also talk about postnatal depression, which is again why I wanted to put
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