Breaking the silence around baby loss - a story of love, hope and finding meaning with Priyanka Saha

Good Mourning

English - October 15, 2020 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
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Priyanka Saha, founder of the Lily Calvert Foundation and mum to Lily and Jasper, shares her incredibly brave story of being faced with every mother’s worst nightmare, losing her lovely baby daughter Lily at 10 and a half months old due to an incurable brain condition known as Miller-Dieker syndrome.

She shares how she came to find out about Lily’s diagnosis in the late stages of her pregnancy and how she and her husband coped with parenting their terminally ill child.

Piryanka talks us through how she embraced the new version of herself after dealing with the unimaginable loss of her baby girl, and shares her advice for those who have experienced a similar situation, as well as helpful tips for those supporting someone who has lost a child.

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Instagram: @goodmourningpodcast

www.goodmourning.com.au

Links

The Lily Calvert Foundation: https://lilycalvert.com/

You can connect with Priyanaka on Instagram at: @thelilyfllower_

The Lily Calvert Foundation’s Instagram page: @thelilycalvertfund

The New York Times: Notes from a Dragon Mum by Emily Rapp: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-dragon-mom.html