31 Days PAIL Companion: Start here October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and on 15 October, families worldwide light a candle at 7 pm for the International Wave of Light. In this episode, I look at where this month came from, why pregnancy and infant loss remains one of the most silenced losses, and
Grief and trauma both change how memory works, and almost everyone going through either one ends up asking the same handful of questions. In this episode, we go through eleven of the most common ones: five about what trauma does to memory of the event itself, and six about what grief does to memory of
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This episode is different. Instead of sitting across from a guest, I am the one in the chair. Fifteen years ago, my daughter Amaya was born at 34 weeks and 5 days — about five weeks early — alongside her identical twin sister, and died two days later after we made the hardest decision of
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As part of the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month of October, I’ve shared podcast episodes which help to understand the various aspects of the experience of parents. In this first episode (E142) of How to Deal with Grief and Trauma, Nathalie Himmelrich explores the history, importance, and impact of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness (PAIL). We
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