In part two of Jamie’s High Risk Birth Story, she covers her experience with a lumpectomy and C-section recovery, followed by chemotherapy, and the struggles of being a new mother while going through cancer treatment.

In this episode of High Risk Birth Stories, Jamie tells her story of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis late in her pregnancy and complications from preeclampsia. After her diagnosis, Jamie explains how she and her medical team planned for a lumpectomy, delivery, and egg freezing, and her experience learning she couldn’t carry more children after treatment.

TW: Miscarriage.

Elizabeth Savetsky, an influencer, shares her story of infertility, difficult pregnancies, and miscarriages. Elizabeth’s story includes complications from hypothalamic amenorrhea, medications that made her feel like “a hormonal train wreck,” and both IUI and IVF. During her second pregnancy, she began blogging about fashion, leading her to eventually share her story to help others and start the Real Love, Real Loss movement.

TW: Infant death. Fortune Faham, a mother of eight, tells her High Risk Birth Story, which includes complications from a short cervix, cerclage, and having twins after losing her newborn daughter to heart disease.

Julie Weiss Mafouda tells her High Risk Birth Story about pregnancy with a bleeding disorder, pain management without an epidural, and giving birth at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

Dr. Melka tells her story of her own high risk pregnancy, explaining how she chose her own OB/GYN, bonding with patients who were pregnant at the same time, and working as an OB/GYN through her pregnancy.

On this High Risk Birth Stories episode, Andrew Cromer shares his story of identical twins born at 24 weeks, including his wife’s emergency C-section, his sons’ stay in the NICU, and the support they received from family. While telling his story, Andrew shares advice for couples in similar situations: take one day at a time, don’t despair, and be cautiously optimistic.

Dr. Deena Blanchard shares her story with postpartum anxiety for the first episode of High Risk Birth Stories. A pediatrician, Dr. Blanchard shares her story to show that postpartum anxiety “can happen to anyone” and that “there’s no shame in having a postpartum mood disorder.”

Introducing High Risk Birth Stories! This Healthful Woman spin-off features women and parents telling their real, unfiltered stories of fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth. As host Dr. Fox says, “the stories are about pregnancy, but in reality, they’re much bigger. They’re really about life.” Check in with our first High Risk Birth Story on Thursday, February 18th!