Unexpected Loss Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's show Allison and guest host Gabriel Roth talk with Debbie Haine Vijayvergiya, an advocate for stillborn awareness, about her heartbreaking experience delivering a stillborn child. Then, they discuss children's birthday parties, why they're so terrible, and how to make them better.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, December 8th, the unexpected loss edition. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Alison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 8, Sam 5, and Wally 3. Dan is off this week, but joining me as |
| 0:23.7 | co-host is Gabe Roth. Gabe. Hi. Hi. Introduce yourself. I'm Gabe Roth, or if you're reading my |
| 0:30.9 | name in print or on the Slate website, I'm Gabriel Roth, and I am a senior editor here at Slate |
| 0:36.1 | Magazine and the editorial director of Slate Plus, Slate's membership program, and I am a senior editor here at Slate Magazine and the editorial director of Slate Plus, Slate's |
| 0:38.8 | membership program, and I am the father of Eliza, who recently turned six years old, and Theo, |
| 0:46.1 | who recently turned two and a half years old. |
| 0:49.1 | Happy birthday, guys. |
| 0:51.0 | On today's show, we'll talk to Debbie Hain, V.J. Vergea, an advocate for stillbirth awareness |
| 0:55.4 | about her experience delivering a stillborn baby. Then Gabe and I will fetch about and compare |
| 1:00.8 | notes on kid birthday parties, having to plan them, how to prevent them from taking up way |
| 1:05.0 | too much of your time and energy, plus parenting triumphs and fails, a listener call about |
| 1:09.7 | evening routines and recommendations. |
| 1:12.4 | And for our Slate Plus segment, Slate's news editor, Chad Lorenz, will join us to tell us about a minor but important technical tip, triumph, about your family and the cloud. |
| 1:22.7 | But first, announcements. Gabe is a professional Slate Plus director. I am. So Gabe will do the Slate Plus |
| 1:29.8 | announcements. Sure. This is absolutely my area of expertise. So Resta showed that you're in good |
| 1:34.0 | hands when I promote our membership program Slate Plus to you. Slate Plus is Slate's membership |
| 1:41.0 | program in which Slate readers and podcast listeners help support the magazine and our |
| 1:45.6 | podcasts help us do our work and in return get all kinds of great content, including |
| 1:51.0 | extended ad-free versions of this and our other great podcasts. Exclusive content on the website, |
| 1:59.0 | our great Slate Academy series in which Slate writers and editors take a deep dive into topics of import and interest, such as the history of slavery in America, the present state of our financial debt, and much more. |
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