Becoming a Mother Without my Mother: Melissa's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
English - November 04, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Education pregnancy birth post partum depression placenta motherhood birth stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Losing your Identity in Motherhood: Marnie's story
Today's guest is a clinical psychologist, whose mother passed away a few years before she had any direct experience of pregnancy. She encounters recurrent miscarriage, three in the first trimester, and then a pregnancy that progresses past the first trimester, only to be threatened with prematurity early in the third trimester and experience all of these challenging and transformative events are harder to manage without her mother. Now she's focused on helping women who are going through or have gone through these major life events without their mothers. What follows is the first part of our conversation. Next Friday. We'll hear the rest. Let's get to her inspiring story.
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