Navigating Baby Loss

By Jennifer Senn

This is where we say the things we can't say anywhere else to anyone else. Join certified life coach and stillbirth mom Jennifer Senn as she shares stories and has conversations about what life is

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June 18, 2026141: The Panic After the Laugh- Grief, Guilt, and Permission to Live
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You laughed for the first time in what feels like forever… and then the panic hit. Who am I to laugh when my baby died?
If that's you, you're not alone, and you're definitely not the first mom to feel it. In this episode, Jennifer gets honest about the guilt that floods in right after a laugh, a smile, a single good moment. She remembers it from her own life: laughing at something her husband said, and then freezing in shame, certain that joy somehow meant she was forgetting her twin daughters.
Here's what she wants you to know- the laugh was never the problem. It's the story your brain tells you afterward. This episode is about gently loosening the grip of that guilt, and learning that you can carry your baby with you into joy instead of leaving them behind in your pain.
What you'll learn:
Why that wave of panic shows up the second you catch yourself laughing, and why it isn't a sign that something's wrong with you
The quiet belief that grief is the proof of how much you loved your baby (and why it keeps you stuck)
How "guilt becomes your job" when there's no baby to care for, and what to do with that
Why being miserable forever was never actually honoring your babies' memory
The difference between leaving your baby behind and bringing your baby's love with you
A simple sentence you can say out loud the next time the guilt tries to flood in
How Jennifer uses neuro-linguistic programming to talk back to the cruel thoughts instead of just believing them
Why laughing at 7pm on a Wednesday is actually a really good sign
The permission you've probably been waiting for someone to give you
Read the full blog post here
Want to go deeper on releasing the guilt spiral? Jennifer walks you through her three steps inside my 3-Day Experience for Moms After Baby Loss: navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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20min
May 28, 2026140: Why You Froze When They Said the Wrong Thing
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You weren't being too sensitive. They were being thoughtless. Those are not the same thing.
You know the comment. The one your sister said at brunch. The one your best friend sent over text. "You can always try again." "At least you know you can get pregnant." "Maybe by this time next year you'll have your baby." When it comes from a stranger, you can write it off. But when it comes from someone your own age, someone who knew your baby, someone who was supposed to be in your corner, that's a different kind of wound.
In this episode, I'm talking about why those comments hit the way they do, and why it has nothing to do with you needing thicker skin. We'll get into the second sentence hiding underneath the words, the freeze response that keeps you from saying anything in the moment, and why your baby was never a rough draft or a practice round. I'm also sharing what someone said to me after I lost my girls, and how it quietly changed the way I let people in.
What you'll learn:
Why a comment from your sister or best friend cuts so much deeper than one from a stranger at Target
The unspoken second sentence underneath "next year you'll have your baby" and why you're not imagining it
Why your body freezes when someone says the wrong thing, and why that's survival, not weakness
How to stop carrying shame about the things you didn't say in the moment
Why your baby is not a stepping stone, a placeholder, or a first draft — and never will be
How to hold two true things at once: they meant well, and it still hurt
Three things you can actually do this week when someone wounds you this way
Why you don't owe anyone a graceful response or an explanation
How to make peace with the fact that some people will never fully understand, and why that's okay
Read the full blog post here:
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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19min
May 23, 2026139: When You're Running on 6% Battery and Your Kids Still Need You
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What if the most exhausted you've ever been isn't from the loss itself — but from mothering your living children while grieving the baby you didn't get to bring home?
If you've come home from the hospital to a house full of little ones who still need you — needing breakfast, needing rides to school, needing your lap — you already know this kind of tired. The kind sleep doesn't fix. The kind that makes you feel like a zombie reading bedtime stories with your mouth while your brain is somewhere else entirely.
In this episode, I'm taking you back to my kitchen — to my five-year-old in his Batman pajamas asking me a question I couldn't even hear. To the moment I realized I had nothing left. And to everything I want you to know if that's where you are right now.
What you'll learn:
Why the exhaustion of grieving while parenting is its own specific, lonely kind of tired — and why no one warns you about it
The "two jobs" you're doing every single day (and the second one is the one that's really eating you alive)
Why snapping at your kids doesn't make you a bad mom — and what it actually means about how much you love them
What your living children will really remember from this season (it's not what your guilt is telling you)
How to drop the bar for what counts as "being a good mom" right now — all the way to the floor
A simple practice for when the guilt starts spiraling after a hard moment with your kids
Why the baby you lost is already part of the way you mother every other child you have
The truth about whether you're "ruining" your kids by being sad (spoiler: you're not)
If guilt is the heaviest thing you're carrying right now, my free workshop Practical Ways to Release Guilt and Navigate Grief After Baby Loss was built for exactly this. You can register at navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop.
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/parenting-after-stillbirth-exhaustion-guilt
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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19min
May 07, 2026138: Am I Still a Mom? The Question Every Stillbirth Mom Asks
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You are a mother. Full stop.
If you've ever hesitated when someone asks how many kids you have… if you've sat at a baby shower feeling like a fraud… if you've questioned whether you really get to claim the word "mother" - this episode is for you.
Your baby made you a mother. Loss didn't change that. Time doesn't change that. Silence from the people around you doesn't change that. And this is the episode to keep in your back pocket for the days when you need someone to remind you.
What you'll learn:
Why you became a mother the moment you saw that positive pregnancy test — and nothing has taken that away
How to answer those impossible doctor's office questions without it breaking you open every single time
What to do when a friend says "just wait until you're a mother…" and you feel the floor drop out
Why the guilt around claiming your motherhood is so common — and why you don't have to carry it
How to honor your motherhood on Mother's Day in small, real ways that feel like yours
Why saying your baby's name out loud is one of the most motherly things you can do
The truth about what motherhood actually is — and why it was never about logistics in the first place
Why you don't need anyone's permission to claim the mother you already are
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/still-a-mother-after-stillbirth-138
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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11min
April 30, 2026137: How to Survive Mother's Day After Losing Your Baby
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Are you already dreading Mother's Day? You are not alone — and you are not doing grief wrong.
If your chest gets tight just thinking about Mother's Day... if you're already noticing the ads, the brunch promos, the "best mom ever" posts, and your body is bracing weeks before the day even arrives — this episode is for you. That heaviness has a name. It's anticipatory grief. And it's so much more common than anyone tells you.
In this episode, I'm not going to try to fix Mother's Day or hand you a list of ways to "get through it." I'm just going to sit with you in the truth of it — share my own first Mother's Day after losing my twins, and give you permission to feel exactly what you're feeling.
What you'll hear in this episode:
Why the weeks leading up to Mother's Day often feel heavier than the day itself- and what anticipatory grief actually is
The story of my first Mother's Day after losing my twin daughters, and the conflicted feelings I never expected to have
Why you can feel like a mother and feel completely inadequate at the same time- and why both are valid
The guilt that creeps in when you don't want to celebrate a day that's "supposed to be beautiful"
What to do when your family wants brunch, your friends send cheerful texts, and your partner has no idea what you need
Why feeling alone in a room full of people who love you is one of the loneliest parts of this day
Permission to say the things you're already thinking - "I hate this day. I wish I could skip it. I don't feel like a mom."
How to start deciding what this day looks like for you- not for everyone else
Why planning ahead for hard days is a game changer (and not the same as "powering through")
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/mothers-day-after-stillbirth-dread-137
If you want gentle, bite-sized support for moments exactly like this, the Stillbirth Roadmap Experience is open to you. Ten days of lessons delivered straight to your inbox, plus a personal call with me at the end. You can find it at navigatingbabyloss.com/roadmap.
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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14min
April 23, 2026136: Before You Try Again: What Couples Need to Talk About After Baby Loss
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Grief after stillbirth doesn't just live inside you — it can quietly settle between you and your partner, too. And if you've ever looked at him and wondered how he can just go to work and act like everything is normal... you're not alone.
In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Miranda Bayard Clark, a licensed therapist turned coach and founder of the Baby Ready Blueprint. Miranda helps couples prepare their relationship for the realities of parenthood — and today, she's getting real about what loss does to a relationship, why partners grieve so differently, and how resentment can build without either of you realizing it.
This conversation is for the mom who feels like she's carrying her grief alone — and the one who's wondering what it would even look like to feel like a team again.
In this episode, you'll hear:
Why partners almost always grieve differently after loss — and why that doesn't mean he doesn't care
How resentment quietly builds when needs go unspoken, and what to do when you notice it happening
Why trying again — whether naturally or through IVF — can bring up so much more than just hope
The one conversation Miranda says every couple should have before moving forward after a loss
What it actually means to ask for what you need, even when you're afraid of what he might say
Why men tend to jump into "fix it" mode — and the simple language shift that can change everything
What "score keeping" in your relationship really signals, and why it's worth paying attention to
How the stories we tell ourselves in silence can quietly become resentment over time
Miranda's Baby Ready Blueprint and her upcoming Us Before Baby course — and who they're really for
Miranda's Links:
www.loveafterlullabies.com
@mirandaforcouples
@loveafterlullabies
Read the full blog post here: LINK
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

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Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
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37min
April 16, 2026135: Still in the Group Chat, But Not One of Them Anymore
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Have you ever been invited to something — a baby shower, a play date, a summer gathering — and felt that quiet dread settle in before you even replied?
It's not that you don't love your friends. You do. It's that somewhere along the way, you became the exception in the group — the one everyone is a little careful around, the one whose life went a different way. And now being around the people you love most can feel like the loneliest place in the world.
In this episode, Jennifer talks honestly about what happens to your friendships after stillbirth — especially when you're watching a whole friend group move into the season of babies and play dates and nursery updates that you were supposed to be part of too. She talks about why it's so hard, why you keep showing up even when it hurts, and what you can actually do about it without losing yourself or the friendships that matter.
What you'll learn:
Why being invited isn't the same as feeling included — and why that difference is so important
How to understand the real reason your friend group feels so isolating right now (even when everyone loves you)
Why the two worlds — yours and theirs — don't speak the same language, and why that's not anyone's fault
What's really behind the guilt and longing and resentment you feel when you see their babies and their beautiful, uncomplicated lives
Why pretending you're okay is keeping you stuck — and what honesty with your friends can actually look like
How to decide what you can and can't do right now — without guilt and without apology
What to do when you're invited to something that feels impossible — including a few real, honest options that aren't just "white knuckle it"
Why some friendships will deepen after loss and some will fade — and why both of those things are allowed
How to protect yourself without pulling away from every person you love
Why you are not responsible for managing everyone else's comfort around your grief
[Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/friendships-after-stillbirth-baby-loss-135
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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16min
April 09, 2026134: What Grandparents Need to Know After Baby Loss
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Does your family know how to grieve with you or are they quietly falling apart on their own?
Grandparent grief after stillbirth is one of the most overlooked parts of baby loss. Your parents and in-laws lost a grandchild. They lost the future they imagined for you. And most of the time, nobody is checking in on them while they're trying to figure out how to show up for you without making things worse.
In this episode, I'm talking to both sides the grandparents who are carrying their own grief in silence, and the loss moms who might not realize that the people closest to them are struggling too. With Mother's Day right around the corner, this felt like the right time to open a conversation that could change everything in your family.
What you'll learn:
Why grandparent grief gets overlooked and why it matters more than you think
The double loss grandparents carry: grieving their grandchild and grieving for their child
What not to say to a loss mom (especially if you're her parent)
The simple things grandparents can do that actually help even when words feel impossible
Why your adult child might pull away from you, and what it really means
How in-law dynamics make grandparent grief even more delicate
One small Mother's Day gesture that can heal or one silence that can break a relationship
How to tell your parents or in-laws what you actually need from them
What happens when the baby becomes the thing nobody talks about
Why sharing this episode might open the door you've been afraid to walk through
Read the full blog post here:
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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19min
March 19, 2026133: What Emily's Stillbirth Story Taught Me About Charging Through
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I came home from a retreat in Nashville with a lot of things on my mind. But one conversation wouldn't leave me alone.
I met a woman named Emily — a birth worker, a loss mom — and she said something that stopped me cold. She said, "I chose to be a buffalo." I've lived in Buffalo my whole life. Buffaloes are everywhere I look. And somehow, I had never heard it this way.
This episode is about that conversation, what it made me realize about grief, and the honest question I've been sitting with ever since: What if the way we're trying to get through the pain is actually keeping it in us longer?
I don't say that to make you feel bad about how you've been surviving. Surviving after stillbirth is everything. But I do want to sit with you in this question, because it changed something in me — and I think it might do the same for you.
This is a solo episode about facing grief head on (not alone), why managing your pain and actually feeling it are two very different things, and how the storm you've been running from might be the very thing keeping you in it.
What you'll learn:
The buffalo analogy and why it's the most honest picture of what grief-facing actually looks like
Why running from your grief doesn't make it go away — it just makes it follow you underground
How grief shows up as snapping at your partner, low-grade numbness, guilt you can't trace, and that tight feeling in your chest at the grocery store
The real difference between surviving your grief and actually moving through it
Why "being strong" and being brave are not the same thing — and which one actually helps you heal
What it means to charge into the storm with support — not just willpower and suffering alone
The honest question to sit with this week: where in your life are you going around your grief instead of through it?
Why facing your loss doesn't mean leaving your baby behind — it's actually one of the most honoring things you can do
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
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21min
February 26, 2026132: What Grief Looks Like When It's Hiding in Plain Sight
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I sat frozen at a table full of women cutting out pictures of diamond rings and vacation homes — and I couldn't put a single thing on my page.
Not because I didn't want nice things. But because somewhere deep inside of me, grief had quietly convinced me that wanting things was dangerous.
In this solo episode, I'm sharing one of the most defining moments of my life — the story of a vision board exercise at a business conference that changed everything. I was there for the numbers. For the strategy. I was not expecting a life coach to sit down beside me, look at my blank page, and say something I had never once heard from a doctor, a therapist, or anyone who loved me.
If you've ever felt yourself living small without fully understanding why... this episode is for you.
What you'll learn:
Why grief doesn't always look like sadness on the floor — and what it looks like when it's quietly running your whole life
The moment I realized I hadn't let myself dream in over ten years (and what finally cracked that open)
The one thing that life coach said to me that no one — not my doctor, not my therapist, not my family — had ever said before
Why "healing" doesn't have to mean leaving your baby behind
The real difference between therapy and life coaching for grief, and why it matters for moms like us
How your baby's memory doesn't have to live only in the painful places — it can be woven into your future, every single day
What I finally put on that vision board, and what happened the following year
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website- https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/navigatingbabyloss/
You Tube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-2MCEY5PRiF6p6VB_2lxA
...more
20min

FAQs about Navigating Baby Loss:

How many episodes does Navigating Baby Loss have?

The podcast currently has 142 episodes available.