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In Life After Loss Part 1, Katherine tells her story of loss and how it impacted her personal growth and her family.  Be sure to give it a listen.  (Click here for part 1)

Listen to Part 2 as we continue to follow Katherine’s journey to becoming a Perinatal Bereavement Psychotherapist and having her Rainbow Baby Alice.  She always desired to have a big family but after a loss there was a lot to think about.  Getting pregnant again unexpectedly created uncertainty that Katherine and her husband worked through.  But looking back, Katherine realized that she was just going through the motions of this new pregnancy.  Find out how this new baby transformed their lives and how attachment is different with a Rainbow Baby.  

Katherine Hyde Hensley is a perinatal bereavement psychotherapist and group facilitator skilled in bereavement. She has a broad range of experience and knowledge in the areas of birth, postpartum, child development, infant death, and grief. Katherine earned her BS in Public Health and Child Development and her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University and received her training as a Certified Postpartum Doula (DONA), certified Birth Doula (DONA), Resolve Through Sharing Perinatal Bereavement Trainer, Perinatal Loss Doula (LDI), and Palliative Care Provider from Harvard Medical School.  Since 2008 she has combined her personal and professional experiences to improve the lives of infants, children, and families across Western North Carolina. Katherine lives in Asheville, NC with her husband Dave and four children, Elliott 19, Eliza 16, (Helen 14), and Alice 13. 

 Listen and Learn: 

• How fear impacts pregnancy after loss 
• How caregivers could have helped lessen that fear 
• What her “ghost pregnancy” means 
• How Katherine moved from detached to attached 

• What groups you should know about to help women you work with 
• How online groups may be a benefit to both parents 

Resources & Mentions:   

Threads of Love 

Star Legacy Foundation     

Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA)    

Katherine Hyde Hensley Counseling and Consulting 

Related Products from InJoy:   

Guide to Grief and Healing After the Loss of your Baby 

Loss is always difficult.  Losing someone you’re supposed to be meeting for the first time and spending the rest of your life with is even tougher.  Katherine and her family planned for a joyful event, the birth of their daughter Helen, but that turned to sorrow when Helen was stillborn.    

Listen in as we follow Katherine’s journey of becoming a postpartum and loss doula and ultimately, a Perinatal Bereavement Psychotherapist.  She will walk us through resources and research shaping the world of loss and provide ideas for healing that we can use with our families, friends, students, or clients experiencing similar types of loss.   

 Katherine Hyde Hensley is a perinatal bereavement psychotherapist and group facilitator skilled in bereavement. She has a broad range of experience and knowledge in the areas of birth, postpartum, child development, infant death, and grief. Katherine earned her BS in Public Health and Child Development and her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University and received her training as a Certified Postpartum Doula (DONA), certified Birth Doula (DONA), Resolve Through Sharing Perinatal Bereavement Trainer, Perinatal Loss Doula (LDI), and Palliative Care Provider from Harvard Medical School.  Since 2008 she has combined her personal and professional experiences to improve the lives of infants, children, and families. Katherine lives in Asheville, NC with her husband Dave and four children, Elliott 19, Eliza 16, (Helen 14), and Alice 13.  

Next week, be sure to tune in to “Part 2: Growing a Healthy Rainbow Baby” to learn more about how the birth of a new baby after perinatal loss impacts the life of the family.   

  Listen and Learn (Part 1):   

• Why support is important to families in crisis after the loss of their loved one  
• How the medical community still finds it hard to come to grips with the loss of a baby  
• How palliative care is crucial to this type of loss  
• The rate of loss in the United States   
• What to do to honor and help make memories after the loss  
• What steps can be taken to help minimize loss  
• 5 steps to reduce the risk of stillbirth & perinatal loss  
• The Pregnancy Research Project 

Resources & Mentions:   

Threads of Love  

Star Legacy Foundation   

Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA)  

Katherine Hyde Hensley Counseling and Consulting  

Related Products from InJoy:   

A Guide to Grief and Healing After the Loss of your Baby    

Listen as Bonita (Boni) Katz BA, RN, ICCE, ICBD, IAT, CLC talks about the impact that ICEA has had on the field of maternal-child health and her own journey.  Promoting family-centered care and freedom to make decisions based on knowledge of options and alternatives are the key tenants of ICEA. Boni’s own birth helped spark her interest in becoming a certified childbirth educator and doula with ICEA.  Joining ICEA in 1991, she went on to become a nurse and has continued her work as a childbirth educator and doula.  Boni joined the ICEA board 2013 and is currently serving a two-year term as the president through the end of this year.   

Listen and Learn: 

• A short history of childbirth education in the US 
• ICEA’s journey from teaching parents to training teachers (and later doulas) 
• The importance of certification 
• The flexibility that is needed during times like COVID  
• The challenges of working internationally 
• Improving infant and maternal mortality 

Resources & Mentions: 

Visit the ICEA Website 

ICEA Virtual Conference bundles 

Position Papers, Statements & Core Competencies 

Partners 

The International Childbirth Initiative (ICI): 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care 

Related Products from InJoy:  

Understanding Birth Curriculum

Pain Management for Childbirth, Two Volumes

The Stages of Labor: A Visual Guide

When the “Back to Sleep” campaign to reduce infant deaths started in 1994, the rate of SIDS went from 10,000 to 3,500 per year very quickly.  Judy Bannon, founder of Cribs for Kids, realized that was a great thing but also found that some neighborhoods in her area had not reduced the number of SIDS deaths.  She wanted to help.  Listen in today with our guest Devon George to find out how Cribs for Kids took on the challenge to make sure that families had a safe place for their babies to sleep, along with the education to go with it.  She will also discuss their programs like the National Hospital Certification Program to help lower the numbers of SIDS deaths even more.  

Devon George, MSN, RN is Director of Education at Cribs for Kids, where her primary focus is the National Hospital Certification Program. Devon joined Cribs for Kids after working in academic nursing where she oversaw clinical curriculum for ADN and BSN programs.  She also sits on the board of directors of Global Links, serving as the Vice Chair.  

Listen and Learn:  

•  Why Back to Sleep transitioned to Safe to Sleep  
• 1,600 partners nationwide provide the Cribs for Kids safe sleep cribettes and educational materials  
• Hospitals can become nationally certified by making sure all patients go home with education about the ABCs – Alone, on their Back, in a Crib 
• The importance of having all who care for the baby know about safe sleep - grandparents, childcare providers, babysitters and family   
• Safe sleep happens at night AND during the day  
• COVID created opportunities for new ways to get the education and cribettes to families  
• Everyone can promote Safe to Sleep  

Resources & Mentions:  

Cribs for Kids

Safe Sleep Ambassador program 

The National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program 

Ette Cetera – Support Cribs for Kids when purchasing baby necessities for you or your loved ones

Reach out to Devon George 

Related Products from InJoy:  

Understanding Infant & Child Safety Curriculum 

Understanding Your Newborn Curriculum     

Understanding Mother & Baby Care Curriculum  

 InJoy’s 7 Steps to Reduce Risk of SIDS  

Thinking of starting or revamping your Fatherhood class?  Ginny Robinson joins us to share tips and tricks to creating a successful fatherhood class. She offers ideas on formatting, marketing, teaching dads during social distancing & insights into what dads want to know. 

Ginny Robinson has been a nurse for over 50 years and spent the last 32 years at her current hospital in Plano TX. She has worked in many different areas of maternal child nursing including lactation and bereavement. One of her main roles right now is community education including childbirth education programs and community outreach for all ages.   

Listen and Learn: 

• The main things on dads’ minds 
• Team teaching creates more interest 
• Dads teach the baby about the world 
• Building confidence and empowering through class 
• Ways to market classes to keep them full 

Resources: 

• Understanding Fatherhood  
• Understanding Your Newborn 
• Brief Prenatal Role-Play Predicts New Fathers’ Parenting Skills 

Listen as Nikia Sankofa, Executive Director, and Amelia Psmythe Seger, Deputy Director, unfold the richness of USBC. They will tell us about when, why, and how USBC was created, and what the organization's goals are for today and for the future to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in the United States. The strategy and structure of the USBC makes it one of the most dedicated and productive organizations that support those who are supporting families.

Listen and Learn:

• A short history of how USBC started
• USBC is a “coalition of coalitions”
• About the Awake to Woke to Work document to impact equity
• The organizational change that allowed USBC to grow from 50 to 100 members in less than 1 year
• COVID-19 Infant and Young Children Feeding Constellation is an emergency response, leveraging capacity through racial equity with 43 member organizations involved
• About using spaces and graces at the community level to continue to grow in knowledge about equity
• Ways that you and your organization can get involved – how in-kind support is needed

Resources & Mentions:

Visit the USBC Website 

COVID-19 Infant and Young Child Feeding Constellation 

National Breastfeeding Conference & Convening “Reimagined”

USBC Facebook

USBC Twitter

Interested in your organization joining USBC as a Member? Contact [email protected]

Want to offer in-kind support? Contact [email protected] 

Many hospitals have pared their class offerings down to core classes and moved them online. Join us to hear Anne’s story about what those changes have meant for Anne, her staff, and the students.  

Anne Wright’s background is in education. She spent 10 years working for Continental Airlines providing leadership development training to over 5,000 leaders worldwide. During that time, Anne developed a desire to bring leadership principles to families during their childbearing years. She began working at Texas Children's Hospital in 2004 as a leadership and organizational development specialist. In her free time, Anne became a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and began teaching childbirth classes.  In 2011, Texas Children's opened the Pavilion for Women, and Anne became the manager of patient education. Over the past six years, Anne’s team has developed standardized curriculum for 18 different classes. She put into place class standards, department policies and procedures, and a structured development program for educators. 

Listen and Learn: 

• How to maintain quality, access, and innovation while changing how education is delivered 
• What complications had to be overcome in quickly launching virtual formats 
• Reasons for reducing class offerings to only core classes during the crisis 
• How virtual maternity tours can be beneficial for some parents now and even in the future 
• Skills her staff is developing in this time that will be beneficial in the long-term 

Resources & Mentions: 

Building Bridges: Virtual Solutions for Teaching Parents

InJoy's eClass Solutions

InJoy’s COVID Resources

Listen to another episode we recorded with Anne!

Learn how an experienced IBCLC navigates to serve breastfeeding moms and babies in the hospital setting during the time of COVID-19.  Beverly Wilhelm is a Registered Nurse of 25 years and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant of 15 years in Women’s Services (primarily NICU and Mom/Baby). She has worked at hospitals in Atlanta, Dallas, and the Denver metro area. An Atlanta native, she has lived in Denver for 9 years with her husband, two teenage sons, and two dogs. She loves working with new moms, babies, and their families and enjoys the opportunities to educate and make human connections as a nurse. 

Listen and Learn: 

• Changes taking place when working with breastfeeding women 
• The impact of breastfeeding in supporting moms and babies during the pandemic 
• Breastfeeding and pumping protocols established to ensure safety of mom and baby 
• The differences in protocol when a mom has been diagnosed with COVID-19 or is a PUI (person under investigation) 
• Measures to keep the IBCLCs and staff protected during patient interaction 

• Steps Beverly uses to keep her family and home safe and mentally healthy 

Resources & Mentions: 

• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/pregnancy-breastfeeding.html 
• https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/breastfeeding-with-coronavirus  

Related Products From InJoy: 

• Understanding Breastfeeding curriculum 
• Practice to Increase Exclusive Breastfeeding: Managing Common Challenges eCourse 
• Practice to Increase Exclusive Breastfeeding: Core Concepts eCourse 

Today, we discuss how COVID-19 is impacting labor and delivery units.  Carla shares the challenges and positive aspects of working with families during birth and postpartum. She also talks about how this pandemic is changing her outlook and self care, for the better.  

Carla has been in the healthcare field since 2000 and a nurse since 2003. The primary focus of her nursing is Women and Family Services with 17 years as a Labor and Delivery Nurse. She now works as a Charge Nurse at Longs Peak Hospital, which is a community hospital in the UCHealth system in Colorado. She loves her job and taking care of people in her community. 

Listen and Learn: 

• Temporary policy changes to keep everyone safe 
• How the staff is alerted to changes in the system, including 36 updates so far 
• The differences in protocol if a mom has COVID-19 or is PUI 
• How nurses are keeping themselves and their families protected from the virus 
• How her team is becoming stronger as a result of the crisis

Resources & Mentions: 

• Care of Pregnant Women with COVID-10 in Labor and Delivery 

• InJoy Resources for COVID-19 

Related Products from InJoy: 

• Understanding Birth 

• Pain Management, Vol 1 and 2 

• Understanding Mother & Baby Care  

In the second episode in our COVID-19 series, we speak with Dawn Dudley, Ph.D. to explore the processes of creating a rapid COVID-19 test in one lab in Wisconsin.  When it became apparent that diagnostic tests for coronavirus were unavailable to most people with symptoms who were not hospitalized, Dawn began working with another scientist in the laboratory to try to develop a method to diagnose this virus using unique materials. Optimizing this new coronavirus test is what Dawn is primarily working on in the laboratory today. 

Dawn obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular and Microbiology at Case Western Reserve University where she studied HIV drug resistance. Dawn then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her post-doc where she continued to study HIV drug resistance in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine under the supervision of Dr. David O'Connor. She continues to work with Dr. O'Connor as a senior scientist in the laboratory. About four years ago, Dawn started working on Zika virus with close collaborators from Brazil and developed the first nonhuman primate animal model to study Zika virus in pregnancy. She continues to work on many Zika-related projects, which has given her many opportunities to speak at international meetings and in labs all over the world.  

Listen and Learn: 

• The next wave of maternal/child health diseases Dawn is researching  

• How her lab was able to quickly switch to focusing on creating COVID-19 tests 
• The process of creating a test, including collaboration with other universities 
• The timeline for implementing the test kit to healthcare facilities and for home use 
• How an effective test can help bring a lessening to COVID-19 

Resources & Mentions: 

Why COVID tests like Dawn is helping to create are so important

InJoy Resources for COVID-19