When Moose brings you a baby: pregnancy after loss
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Gretchen shares the news that she is pregnant, and gets very honest about what pregnancy after loss actually feels like.
She talks through conceiving after her January miscarriage, the anxiety of waiting on bloodwork, checking HCG and progesterone levels, seeing the heartbeat, and the emotional whiplash of feeling deeply grateful and absolutely terrified at the same time. Gretchen also shares how different this pregnancy feels from Lennon’s, from brutal nausea and food aversions to the gender results sitting unopened in her inbox.
This episode is raw, hopeful, and very real. If you’ve ever experienced pregnancy after loss, miscarriage, intrusive thoughts, or the fear of celebrating too soon, this one will feel honest, comforting, and a little less lonely.
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| 0:00.0 | Pregnancy after loss is the pure definition that two things can be true at once. |
| 0:06.5 | You can be so grateful and so fucking terrified at the same time. |
| 0:11.9 | The intrusive thoughts are more embarrassing that I would like to admit. |
| 0:15.4 | I really regret not celebrating and not letting myself celebrate. |
| 0:22.4 | D-bad baby. That stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. |
| 0:25.6 | And we're not sugar-coating shit. |
| 0:27.1 | So let's get into it, shall we? |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, my gals. |
| 0:35.4 | How are we surprised if I look a little bit rough? It's because I'm in the trenches |
| 0:39.3 | of my first trimester. By the time you are listening to this, I have already announced that we are |
| 0:45.0 | I hate when people say we are pregnant. Oh my God. We are not pregnant. I am pregnant. We are |
| 0:50.0 | expecting a baby, but I am pregnant. And if you've been following along on Instagram, you have |
| 0:54.9 | probably seen that I am motherfucking going through it. I am so insanely nauseous. I have thrown up |
| 1:01.2 | all over myself multiple times. I've thrown up just walking by the sink. I've thrown up all over |
| 1:06.0 | myself in the shower. I am so grateful for this pregnancy. We are going to talk a lot about what pregnancy |
| 1:12.2 | after loss truly looks like, not in like some sugar-coded dumb bullshit way, but like the honest |
| 1:18.7 | raw truth of what that feels like. I had a lot of people ask if I could do an in-depth |
| 1:23.7 | episode about how we conceived, what my feelings were, how it is after loss, and just how |
| 1:30.6 | different this pregnancy is, all in all. So I would love to get into it. I miscarried in January. |
| 1:38.3 | And it was a crazy miscarriage just because I bled for so long. And then I had like a five day break and then I started |
| 1:46.0 | bleeding again. Any miscarriage, I think, is traumatic. But it was just like TMI, but like so much |
| 1:51.0 | blood. Then I was like, am I okay? Like, did something really bad happen? Am I ever going to be able to |
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