Time To Talk TFMR

Hello and welcome to today's episode. This will be our final episode for season 9, but we'll be back in the Autumn with season 10.

Today, Kris joins me as we talk about his and his wife's experience of TFMR, men's grief and mental health and how golf has helped him in his grief story so far.

You can find Kris's Golf Yourself Healthy website, blog and podcast details here

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

In this episode I speak with Sara and Angela about their experience of TFMR last year for a T21 diagnosis. I really appreciate their candour about their decision making process and how they navigated this very difficult time as a couple.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome to this special episode with a live audience and panel of great expert guests, recorded at Camden Arts Centre in London.

It was a really fantastic opportunity to meet some of you, our wonderful listeners, hear your stories and connect over (copious!) olives. As well, of course, as hearing from a expert guest panel answering all your TFMR questions:

Dr Brenda Kelly, Matrernal and Fetal Medicine Consultant
Dagmar Tapon, Genetic Counsellor
Jane Fisher, Director of Antenatal Results and Choices

A special thank you to ARC for organising and supporting the event.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

In today's episode, Hayley is speaking with Keren Ludski CEO of Red Nose Australia and Amanda Tipping, General Manager of Pink Elephant Support Network. Our first Australian episode!

Keren and Amanda talk about how their organisations support women and couples who have terminated a wanted pregnancy. They also share a little about their personal experiences with pregnancy and baby loss.

More information about both organisations can be found here:

Pink Elephants Support Network
Red Nose Australia

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome to this episode talking to four women and their experiences of TFMR just before and after the fall of Roe vs. Wade.

Roe vs. Wade was the five-decade old supreme court decision to uphold a woman’s right to obtain an abortion. In June 2022, the supreme court overturned this decision, sending abortion rights and access across the United States into a crisis.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello, and welcome to the start of Season 9!

We're kicking it off with an epsiode about exercise. It's something that a few of you have asked for over the years, and to be honest, I've always felt mixed about. In a society that tells mothers to 'bounce back' after full-term, live births - the pressure for bereaved mothers can be crushing.

Thankfully, we have Casey to talk to us about healthy re-engagement with fitness and how to look after your post-partum body. Casey is passionate about core and pelvic floor health, any exercise you do should consider these aspects of your physiology.

Some terms used:

Diastasis - When the muscles of the abdomen separate during or after pregnancy.

Pelvic Floor - Several muscle, ligaments and fascia attached to your pelvis. Damaged/weakened pelvic floor muscles can lead to incontinence (leaking wee or poo).

Prolapse - Pelvic organ prolapse is when 1 or more of the organs in the pelvis slip down from their normal position and bulge into the vagina. It can be the womb (uterus), bowel, bladder or top of the vagina.

We hope you enjoy this episode and get some good advice and support in how to go about healthy fitness.

You can find Casey on Instagram @twopeaswellness and her website can be found here.

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello, and Happy New Year!

In today's episode I am speaking with Dr Rachel Foggin from BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) about surgical termination. 

Many of you wrote in with your questions about surgical termination and we tried to get as many of these answered as we could. This is a very open, honest and frank conversation about what surgical termination in the U.K., and we are very grateful to Rachel for sharing her expertise with us.

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

 Thank you for joining us today. In this episode, Nick Embleton (consultant neonatologist) joins me as co-host for this episode talking to a group of Fathers about men's grief after TFMR. 

The Fathers joining us are Brian, Kenneth, Justin. They are all joining us from the USA and Canada and all have experienced TFMR due to foetal anomaly.

RTZ Hope is spoken about in this episode and they can be found here: https://rtzhope.org/

This is the third and final episode in our series talking to father's about their grief and experiences.

If you liked this, you may also want to listen to:

Episode 45: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/12845792-tfmr-fathers-uk.mp3?download=true

Episode 48: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/13777297-tfmr-fathers-maternal-health.mp3?download=true  

Episode 31: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/11678036-tfmr-a-father-s-grief-with-rasmus-ilso.mp3?download=true

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Jane Fisher, the Director of Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC). It's ARC's 35th anniversary this year and we thought it's be a good idea to hear from Jane about ARC's history, why it was created, how and by whom. I also wanted to hear about what has been most present for ARC in our most recent times and where they are headed for the future.

Jane is a very dynamic charity Director. I don't think there are many that happily (eagerly) man the helplines! And this is what makes ARC so special to us TFMR mothers and fathers. It is having a dedicated charity organisation that has the ability to not only understand the nuanced complexities of what this devasting experience of pregnancy/baby loss is like for parents, but also how to communicate this to the wider public in a compassionate and truthful way.

This is a special charity, doing much good, not just for parents, but in also providing training and information for healthcare professionals too. We also talk a bit about how ARC supports HCPs and is at the forefront of research into various aspects of TFMR.

We hope this gives you a good overview of ARC and how it is there to support you. Even those outside of the U.K. are able to access their specialist support.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Today joining me to talk about pregnancy after loss is Natasha Williams. Natasha is a highly experienced CBT and EMDR trained Psychotherapist, who has over 20 years’ experience of working with women and their partners. She specialises in working with women who have experienced fertility issues and pregnancy loss, and she is a member of the Parenthood in Mind team.

I asked Natasha your questions about the difficulties of pregnancy after loss for TFMR, and she shares her knowledge of anxiety and trauma with us.

If you liked this episode, why not have a listen to have a listen to Natasha’s colleague and founder of Parenthood in Mind, psychotherapist Julianne Boutaleb talking about trying to conceive in episode 44, or episode 38 where I discuss genetic counselling with Dagmar Tapon and ARC’s Jane Fisher.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.