I am kicking this season off in October, a month very dear to my heart. It’s my birthday month (hello Libra szn), but it’s also pregnancy and infant loss awareness month and our fourth anniversary of losing our first baby. It’s a month I used to celebrate because of my birthday, but then it became a month of a significant loss that still hurts. If you’re listening to this episode and grieving or waiting, I am sorry. It’s a shitty club to be part of. However, I will tell you in this club, I found some of the most remarkable women along the way. I share my story because I don’t want other women to feel alone like I did at times. YOU are not alone.
No one really “gets” it unless they’ve been through it themselves. This kind of loss is unlike any.
In this episode, I share our four pregnancy loss journey and what it took to have our daughter. I discuss some resources that helped me get through it and even how we process it today. I included key timestamps just in case you need to skip certain parts. Completely understand.
3:51 - Our First Pregnancy
5:57 -
16:00: 12 weeks finding out the first issue with the first baby and going back for our 15-week appt to find out something was seriously wrong.
20:00 - Our Second Pregnancy - Miscarriage
24:37 - Our Third Pregnancy - Triploidy
25:00 - Our Fourth Pregnancy - Blighted Ovum
26:26 -The Break and Recovery I needed; what did I do
30:10 - Starting the IVF Journey
30:41 - Our Fifth Pregnancy and A Miracle
31:41 - Reflection on our journey
Link to resources
HERESending my love.
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What is The Radical Female with Jami Crist?
The Radical Female, hosted by Jami Crist is a podcast focused on helping women step into their own confidence and power. What is a Radical Female? A radical female is somebody who challenges the way things have always been done. When she sees a locked door, she sneaks in through the window. She’s not afraid to speak up for what she believes in, even if that means sticking out from the crowd. She won’t compromise her priorities or renounce her values. Above all, a radical female isn’t afraid to bet on herself, even if nobody else will.
Whether you’re a female founder prepared to take on your industry’s standard, or a female exec sick and tired of prioritizing everybody else’s priorities, we here to talk through those transformations and how to make it happen by hearing real women who have been through it.
The host, Jami Crist has stepped into her own radical female transformation multiple times, by finding her voice as a female sports exec; through grief and losses, and life changes.