Sisters in Loss Podcast: Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, & Infertility Stories

Today's guest is a mother of 8! Yes, you read that correct she was called to this hood called motherhood. Tacole Robinson endured much heartache and disappointment while seeking to fulfill God's promises for her to become a mother. She has 2 adopted children, 2 foster child, 2 stepchildren, and 2 biological children through IVF. Her ministry centers her children both foster and adopted medically fragile and healing and deliverance for those in need. She shares her story in detail in episode 299 so go back to listen or watch this episode.

In today's episode, Tacole shares her first book which chronicles how she got back to joy after her battle through infertility, stillbirth, and navigating adoptive children and parenting after loss. We discussed how to navigate the holidays and creating memories for your angel and most importantly how to get back to joy during this holiday season.

You can find her book Getting to Joy on Amazon.

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Today's episode is a solo episode where I discuss what has been going on with Sisters in Loss behind the scenes and all about our grief support groups. In 2022, Sisters in Loss partnered with Postpartum Support International to host a bi-weekly grief support group for Black mothers who have experienced pregnancy loss, infant loss, stillbirth, miscarriage, child loss, and infertiilty. Our group named Black Moms in Loss falls under the support groups that PSI offers at postpartum.net. This group is peer led by Sisters in Loss doulas and other grief support workers. In 2023, we moved to weekly grief support groups through Black Moms in Loss and our weekly grief support group meets at 8pm EST every Thursday.

In this episode, I discuss why grief support groups are supplemental to therapy and other healing modalities, why you should join our weekly support group, how to join, and how to continue to support Sisters in Loss.

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You are listening to a special episode of the Sisters in Loss Podcast. As many of my US listeners know next Tuesday, November 7, 2023 is Election Day and Midterm elections, and we have the power to change and shift the paradigm of maternal and infant mortality in America with our vote. In today's episode I sit down with March of Dimes President Stacey D. Stewart to discuss their Blanket Change Campaign launched on October 10, 2017, and why our vote matters in this election, why the maternal death rate is getting worse as technology advances, and how working together with March of Dimes gives all new moms a better chance to be there for their babies.

Stacey D. Stewart joined March of Dimes as its fifth President on January 1, 2017, and first African American President. In this role, Stewart heads the organization leading the fight for the health of all moms and babies. She is responsible for all aspects of the organization's strategy, vision and operations. She has moved on from this role but her impact still lives on to saving the lives of Black moms and babies.

The maternal death rate in America has doubled in just twenty five years, and it's only getting worse. More than 700 moms died due to pregnancy-related causes this year alone, making the United States the most dangerous developed nation to have a newborn baby. Women of color are most at risk of facing life-threatening complications, and black women are three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

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Today's episode is about deciding not to terminate for medical reasons. Many parents are faced with this decision once finding out their babies have abnormalities that will not give them the best quality of life. Today's guest Maria Okehie decided to keep her baby boy after being told he had a stroke in utero and had severe brain damage that he wouldn't make it through labor and delivery. Maria's son was born via c-section and he passed away less than two weeks after he was born.

In this episode, we discuss her first two pregnancies, this infant loss and why she carried her son to tern, his memorial, and having more children after her loss.

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Today's guest has been through several losses. Miscarriage, chemical pregnancy, second trimester loss, and stillbirth. However, Henrietta 'Retta' Brown didn't really begin her healing or coping with her losses until the pandemic happened. Retta didn't really have any family or friends to help her through her journey and wished she did. She did have her rainbow baby girl who is now 7 and is now dealing with all of her feelings from her losses. Retta heard God say its time to help the multitude during the pandemic and she started to share her story in October 2020 via social media on Facebook and Instagram. She was nervous but she knew she had to do it to help others and to break the silence.

How many of us have pushed healing to the backburner as life happened? This episode is for you if you have not begun the healing process and to find out ways to start healing from your loss.

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Today's guest experienced four high risk pregnancies and has two living children. Jamilah Robinson had endured recurrent miscarriages in between birthing her 9 year old son and her rainbow baby who is 3 years old. After the miscarriages she was told she was infertile. Jamilah underwent exploratory surgery and went through testing to quality for fertiliy treatments and a IVF research study. In the midst of the testing and research, she was able to conceive her rainbow baby naturally.

In this episode, Jamilah takes us through her journey to motherhood, recurrent pregnancy loss, surrendering hope to research through IVF, and how God blessed her with her miracle rainbow baby naturally.

This episode is for you to listen to if you have experienced recurrent pregnancy loss and are waiting for your miracle rainbow baby.

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We are kicking off Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month with all new episodes.

Todays episode is an update from our episode 153 guest Dadriaunna Hayes.

Dadriaunna Hayes lost her son at 24 weeks gestation due to cervical incompetence and experienced birth trauma. She went into pre-term labor and the hospital she was at did not have a NICU or Labor and Delivery center so she had to be transferred. Once transferred she endured a cerclage, 2 epidurals in 48 hours, allergic reaction to the labor medications, and ultimately birthed her baby boy who died shortly after entering into the world.

In this episode, Dadriaunna shared how she has birthed 3 babies during the pandemic and how her pregnancy after loss journey inspired her to begin The Mom Bar community and podcast.

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Today's guest lost her son Anthony at 23 weeks gestation. She grieved and wished she had adequate resources to cope with this profound loss. Nekia Mba then welcomed her rainbow baby girl Victoria during the pandemic in March 2021. She had a redeemed experience throughout her pregnancy and an amazing delivery. Her and her husband were ready to try again and the unimaginable happend she lost another baby her daughter Genevieve at 18 weeks.

In today's episode, Nekia shares how she is coping with vaginally delivering 3 babies but only bringing one home. How she has turned her pain into purpose through her non profit Faces of H.O.P.E. How she desires to be a light of promise in a woman's dark days so she doesn't have to suffer in silence as she did. Nekia shares how she is called to instill hope, restore esteem and empower women of faith who have endured infant loss due to stillbirth, miscarriage, and other pregnancy complications.

This episode is for you to listen to if you have experienced second trimester losses or recurrent pregnancy loss. This episode is for you to listen to if you have needed hope and encouragement on your trying to conceive journey.

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Have you ever heard the perspective of loss from a grandmother?

Today's episode features the story of triplet loss of Alicia Harris grandbabies. She is joined by her daughter who both highlight and share their experiences of the journey to motherhood. This episode is for you to listen to if you want to hear the loss perspective of a mother and grandmother, how they overcame grief together, and how a rainbow baby grounded their mother daughter relationship.

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Have you practiced mindful meditation?

Well your time to do so is now using the Expectful app.

What is Expectful? It is the mentall health app for use before, during, and after pregnancy. Including Pregnancy Loss, Infertility, and Trying to Conceive.

In today's episode, we have on Expectful's CEO, Nathalie Walton to share how meditation saved her pregnancy, her transition into being an app user to now CEO, Black women in Tech and why this app is for Black women, and the evolution and future of Expectful.

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Nathalie's Bio

Nathalie is the CEO and Co-Founder of Expectful, a holistic wellness app for hopeful, expecting, and new moms. After recovering from a traumatic high-risk pregnancy, she left her career in Silicon Valley to create holistic resources for other mothers. Nathalie has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University. She is a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneurs to Watch, and is on the Fast Company Executive Board.

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