What Happens when you Confront Challenges in Pregnancy without your Mother? Melissa's Birth story, Part I

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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