The Quiet Ways Loss Shapes a Family

Content note: This episode contains discussion of termination for medical reasons (TFMR), pregnancy loss, and grief.

Soraya Lakhani shares the story of her son Amaanat, who was delivered at 22 weeks after a devastating diagnosis led to a termination for medical reasons.

In this conversation, Soraya reflects on the complex realities of grieving a baby that others may not see or recognize, and the importance of being acknowledged as a parent. She speaks about the support she found through community, the ways grief evolves over time, and how she continues to honour Amanat while raising her living son.

This episode explores the quiet ways loss shapes a family, the rituals that keep memories alive, and how love and grief can exist side by side in everyday life.

What is Beyond the Loss?

Beyond the Loss is a podcast from the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre featuring honest, thoughtful conversations about grief, remembrance, and life after pregnancy and infant loss.

Each episode shares personal stories from parents, professionals, and community members whose lives have been shaped by loss. Each perspective reflects on how grief evolves over time and how love for our babies continues to shape our lives.

Together, we explore what it means to move forward while still carrying loss. Guests reflect on topics like parenting after loss, supporting partners and families, rituals of remembrance, community, and the quiet ways grief can resurface long after others expect it to fade.

You’ll also hear from professionals who walk alongside families every day and others who bring insight into the many ways people find meaning, connection, and healing. And often, those professionals have a personal story themselves. Because this type of loss is anything but rare.

This podcast was created by the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre, a Canadian charity supporting families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, SIDS, and other forms of reproductive loss. Through counselling, peer support groups, mentorship programs, comfort boxes, and community gatherings, the Centre works to ensure that no family has to navigate this kind of grief alone.

Beyond the Loss exists because these stories matter. Pregnancy and infant loss are often surrounded by silence, yet so many families carry these experiences with them for a lifetime.

By sharing these conversations, we hope to create space for remembrance, connection, and understanding; for bereaved families, and for anyone who wants to better support someone they love.

Because grief does not disappear with time. But neither does love.