Latest Pregnancy and infant loss Podcast Episodes
S1 E28 Peaceful Fountain Meditation for Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 31, 2021 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle has created a healing meditation as we close out 2021 and enter into the New Year 2022. This meditation can be used anytime to release the heaviness of stress, strain, and grief. It is also useful for those times when you may feel triggered, especially by someone's insensitive remarks or...
S1 E27 Yoga, Breath, and Meditation for Grief with Stephanie Smith
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 24, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsStephanie Smith, E-RYT, PRYT shares with Michelle how meditation and her yoga practice helped her to work through the grief, guilt, and fear of infertility, difficult pregnancies, and miscarriages. Together they discuss how pregnancy loss can shake one's faith, how unaddressed grief can impact us...
S1 E26 Grief, Hope, Signs, and Miracles- My Fertility Journey with Tammy
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 17, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTammy candidly shares her unexpectedly difficult journey to become pregnant. In her sharing, she provides the insights she gleaned as she worked with her obstetricians, reproductive endocrinologists, fertility specialists, registered dietitians, acupuncture physicians, her extensive research rega...
What Do you Say or Do for Someone Who Has Just Lost A Baby?
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - December 14, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIf you’re not sure what to say to someone who has just lost their baby or are wondering if you should even say something at all, we’ve got #5 tips for you on what you can say or do to show your support. WHERE TO LISTEN: ============================== APPLE PODCAST SPOTIFY GOOGLE RESOURCES =...
What Do you Say or Do for Someone Who Has Just Lost A Baby? SE1 EP11
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - December 14, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIf you’re not sure what to say to someone who has just lost their baby or are wondering if you should even say something at all, we’ve got #5 tips for you on what you can say or do to show your support. WHERE TO LISTEN: ============================== APPLE PODCAST SPOTIFY GOOGLE RESOURCES =...
S1 E25 Pregnancy After Loss- Creating a Positive State of Mind with Dr. Ankita Marjadi
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 10, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Ankita Marjadi openly shares with Michelle how her book "Knock, Knock, Let's Talk" was born during her second pregnancy as she searched for a way to lessen the fear and stress that threatened to consume her after losing her first child to stillbirth.
(5) Ways To Honor Your Baby This Christmas Season. SE1 EP10
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - December 07, 2021 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat Can You Do to Honor Your Baby and Your Grief this Christmas Season? In this episode we are going to discuss (5) ways you can honor the life of your baby and your grief this Christmas season. WHERE TO LISTEN: ============================== APPLE PODCAST SPOTIFY GOOGLE ***If you are deal...
S1 E24 Grief, Loss, and The Great Mother with Isa Gucciardi
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 03, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIsa Gucciardi provides insights from her over twenty-five years of experience in supporting the bereaved. She shares the initiations that women experience throughout their lifetime which include our own birth, puberty, menses, the first sexual experience with another person, giving birth, menopau...
Worldwide Candle Lighting Day/ (5) Ways To Participate in WWCLD. SE1 EP9
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - December 01, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin us today as we share why it is important to remember your baby. We also have (5) unique ways to participate in honoring your child during the Worldwide Candle Lighting Service this year. Will you be lighting a candle in the memory of your child gone too soon on Sunday, December 12th? The ...
S1 E23 My Fertility Journey with Jasmine Katatikarn
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 26, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJasmine Katatikarn shares her almost 6 year long fertility journey. Together, Jasmine and Michelle discuss how difficult and lonely infertility can be for so many, the importance of advocating for yourself, as well as finding someone to talk to or a way to process and release the feelings and emo...
What Does Our Little Sparrows Do? SE1 EP8
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - November 26, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat does OLS do exactly? How do we support families experiencing or anticipating pregnancy or infant loss? In this episode, Geoff and Toni Brabec, the founders of Our Little Sparrows, are going to share with you (4) ways that they support families of pregnancy and infant loss. WHERE TO LISTEN...
Siblings Grieve Baby Loss Too // Bereaved Sibling Awareness Month SE1 EP7
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - November 24, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe month of November is Bereaved Siblings Awareness Month. The purpose is to bring awareness in acknowledging the reality that siblings grieve, each child grieves differently and, that they too need support when processing the death of their baby sibling. How do you help children grieving the...
S1 E22 Reflections on Motherhood and Baby Loss with Nazli
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 19, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNazli openly shares her story of motherhood, the trauma she endured from her cesareans with the births of boys, and grief of her miscarriages. As a linguist, Nazli and Michelle reflect upon how the language and culture around women's bodies strip women of their power creating the guilt, shame, se...
Thanksgiving and Secondary Losses After Baby Loss SE1 EP6
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - November 17, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou may be asking yourself why Thanksgiving and other holidays are so hard in times of grieving. One reason might be because you are reminded that your life is different after the death of your baby. Additional losses or "Secondary Losses" that follow as a result of your baby loss are the most ...
S1 E21 Grief and Loss During the Holidays and a Guided Meditation
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 12, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe holiday season can be magical, and at the same time there are the images and expectations of happy family get-togethers and the pressure to keep up with the parties, gift-giving, and years of tradition. Michelle has created this special episode for those of us facing the holidays after experi...
S1 E20 The Experience of Pregnancy Loss with Brianne Griffis
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 08, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrianne Griffis, Birth/Postpartum/ Bereavement Doula, and Certified Lactation Counselor, candidly shares with Michelle her journey of motherhood through pregnancy, life-threatening hyperemesis gravidarum, birth, and the loss of 5 pregnancies. Together they discuss how trauma and loss can take man...
S1 E19 Stillbirthday with Heidi Faith
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 05, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle has a tender conversation with Heidi Faith, president and CEO of Stillbirthday. Heidi shares her very personal journey that led her to found Stillbirthday Global Network, which is an internationally trusted benevolent organization whose philanthropic mission is simply to doula: to nurtur...
Who Is Our LIttle Sparrows? SE1 EP5
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - November 01, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday we (Geoff and Toni Brabec) share with you "who" we are as an organization. Our Little Sparrows was created from our personal journey of baby loss. The services that we offer are specific to our experience and are based on a lack of support offered in our area of loss. WHERE TO LISTEN: ==...
S1 E18 Exploring Healing After Loss with Amy Wright Glenn
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 29, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle has a profound conversation with her mentor, Amy Wright Glenn. Because birth and death are intertwined, their conversation not only benefits bereaved parents but provides powerful insights to birth professionals as well. Amy reflects upon what healing means as it relates to loss and how ...
How Do I Face Halloween After The Loss of My Baby? SE1 EP4
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - October 26, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we have (5) Solutions for those facing the challenges that Halloween can present! Whether this is your first Holiday Season as a parent of baby loss or not, we face some or all of the challenges talked about in this week's podcast. Our community of Pregnancy and Infant Loss is h...
Grief and the Holidays (5) Special Tips On Getting Through The Holiday Season With Baby Loss. SE1 EP3
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - October 23, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings(5) Special Tips To Help You Through The Holiday Season. Are you dreading the fast-approaching holidays after the loss of your baby? Would you rather hide out in your room and not come out until after January 1st? No matter how happy the season is, you may or may not feel the same way as everyth...
(5) Special Tips On Getting Through The Holiday Season With Baby Loss. SE1 EP3
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - October 23, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings(5) Special Tips To Help You Through The Holiday Season. Are you dreading the fast-approaching holidays after the loss of your baby? Would you rather hide out in your room and not come out until after January 1st? No matter how happy the season is, you may or may not feel the same way as everyth...
S1 E17 A Portrait of Baby Loss and Black Motherhood with Candace Williamson and Taylour Marks
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 22, 2021 17:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle and two student filmmakers, Taylour Marks and Candace Williamson, discuss their debut documentary film, a deeply flawed system, the disparities facing black mothers, and perinatal loss. Black women are twice as likely to experience a miscarriage than other races. African American infants...
S1 E16 Doula Support & Baby Loss
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 22, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle and Naima Bond discuss the experience of supporting families through pregnancy and infant loss as doulas. Naima shares her own story of pregnancy loss and how that inspired her to do additional training in perinatal loss as she became a birth professional. Naima explains some of the cha...
S1 E16 Doula Support & Baby Loss with Naima Bond
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 22, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle and Naima Bond discuss the experience of supporting families through pregnancy and infant loss as doulas. Naima shares her own story of pregnancy loss and how that inspired her to do additional training in perinatal loss as she became a birth professional. Naima explains some of the chal...
S1 E12 Grief, Baby Loss, and Fathers with Adam Angel
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen families experience pregnancy and infant loss, the focus and support is most often directed towards moms. Yet, this can leaves fathers to navigate their grief silently and with few resources. In this episode, Adam Angel, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, candidly shares about the loss of thei...
S1 E13 Tips for Grieving Couples
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 15, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe pain, stress, and trauma that can come with pregnancy and infant loss impacts even the best of relationships. While grief is universal, everyone grieves at their own depth and pace. Men and women can grieve and mourn differently, which may be a source of misunderstanding and hurt feelings. M...
S1 E14 Baby Loss From a Father's Perspective
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 15, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle has an open and raw conversation with Matt, who lost his daughter, Rowan, to a stillbirth. Matt candidly shares the journey of baby loss from the father's perspective. He describes how grief, through no fault of your own, can create a sense of being ostracized by those around you. Becaus...
S1 E15 Guided Meditation for Pregnancy and Infant Loss- October 15th
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 15, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle honors October 15th: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. She has created a guided relaxation recording geared towards parents grieving the loss of a baby or a child. However, it can be helpful for anyone walking through the journey of grief. The intention is to help release some o...
How Do I Honor My Baby On International Wave of Light Day? SE1 EP2
Our Little Sparrows Podcast - October 11, 2021 22:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAre you looking for a special way to celebrate the life of your baby? Today we are going to share with you an amazing annual event that takes place on Oct. 15th., The International Wave of Light. We will share with you (5) ways you can participate in this unique and special event. We are in th...
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