Miscarriage

Previa Alliance Podcast

Previa Alliance Team

Mental Health, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Health & Fitness, Education

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Who among us truly understands the profound grief and the often unspoken realities surrounding a miscarriage? It’s a painful journey, one that is often overshadowed by medical jargon and a lack of empathetic resources. This episode seeks to provide solace and understanding, underlining the unfortunate labeling of miscarriage as an abortion in medical charts. Our stories and conversations are a journey through the emotional turbulence, with the hope to instill hope and comfort.

As we traverse this challenging terrain, my friend's mother, who provided a beacon of comfort and understanding, joins us in the dialogue. Navigating a healthcare system in a new state, grappling with the fear of losing a baby, and the emotional turmoil that accompanies it, we share our experiences. We delve into the scarcity of understanding and support from medical professionals in emergency situations. Trust us when we say, you are not alone, and seeking compassionate support is crucial.

In the final part of our discussion, we shift our focus to the importance of mental health for mothers, particularly those grappling with postpartum depression. We highlight the Previa Alliance podcast, created for moms by moms, and its potential to provide solace. We emphasize the significance of honoring the lost child and seeking professional help to navigate through grief and loss. We invite you, our listeners, to find comfort, understanding, and resources on this heartfelt journey.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to pre-lanceines podcast this is Sarah and Whitney.
0:14.0	Today we're gonna talk kind of a heavier subject so there's a trigger warming on this
0:18.6	miscarriage. Yeah it is something unfortunately that statistics we know at least one in four women experience if not more
0:26.6	I was what to say I think it could be more truly because I've known some friends of mine who have experienced a miscarriage. They knew it was a miscarriage when they were
0:35.6	passing it at home. So therefore it may not actually get recorded by a doctor's office.
0:41.5	And it's a really hard thing that, you know. People aren't really going to be very open about. It's not something you can accurately count the numbers for. But the think about miscarriages, it's a loss and it's a grief and it is something that will always stay with you and you will never forget it and I'll just share a little bit about my story that you know we
1:06.2	our first pregnancy came to us as a surprise and we went in everything was fine at like eight weeks, heartbeat, it's great.
1:18.0	So then everybody tells you, you wait till 12 weeks, right?
1:21.5	And you announce and it's great and it's fine. So we went, whenever we went to the beach and we wrote in the sand baby. And there was, I had a bottle of water. We had a bottle, we had a bottle I bought a bottle and then
1:35.9	Bill had a beer took it put on Facebook and I was like okay this is this is my first pregnancy, this is what's going to happen, right?
1:45.3	Like you were just like, oh, it's going to work, right?
1:48.2	Yeah.
1:49.2	And then that same week, I kid you not was at was shopping and I was having like some
1:58.0	crampane and I was like oh oh gosh okay and I was I tried to get out of the car and I like held on I remember this very vividly and this was
2:06.7	six years ago I held onto the car door and I was like Bill something's wrong like soft's wrong and I just was like I think I'm
2:15.1	losing the baby and we had known it was a girl we had did I was gonna ask if you
2:21.8	all like the blood test we did we did and we knew it was a We had
2:25.0	had a blood test we had a carmozema and I was like this can't be happening like this cannot be happening like this cannot be happening and he was like okay just rest like we called we actually call one of
2:36.9	bills attendings at the time we were in Boston and he said can Sarah come in and like, you know, I, my husband's with his profession, we got to go through the back door.
2:47.0	And he was like, can we scan her?
2:49.0	Because other, separate miscarriage experience experience I've had to go I had to go to the ER
2:56.4	and I'll tell I'll share with that a little bit that that was traumatic but this one was
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