Baby Loss, Grief & Love
Baby Loss, Grief and Love is hosted by Kelly Wells MBACP, Founder and CEO of Making Miracles Charity. A counselling specialist in pregnancy, birth trauma and baby loss at all stages. Kelly also provides training for NHS staff working in this field. Making Miracles Registered Charity provides trauma and bereavement care through a number of services including professional counselling, a baby memorial garden, support groups, a published children’s book “The Baby", home therapy Care Boxes and so much more! The UK’s only Charity providing counselling support to the whole family, parents, siblings and grandparents. The podcast discusses all things related to trauma and loss. Making Miracles will be the first Baby Loss Support Charity in England to do this and will help people access self help or therapy who may live out of the area we facilitate and discuss relevant emotions, conditions, concerns and anxieties whilst navigating the pathway through the journey that is grief.
Contact: kelly@makingmiracles.org.uk.
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Baby Loss, Grief & Love
S8, E7 - Stillbirth and Relationships
In this week’s episode Kelly welcomes Louise to the podcast. Louise bravely shares her story of stillbirth and the sudden, traumatic loss of her baby, Silky. What began as early labour quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare when, in the birthing suite, Silky’s heartbeat became difficult to locate. Within moments, Louise and her husband Bruce were told their baby had died. The cause was a placenta abruption, Louise had no warning signs and no symptoms.
Louise opens up about the raw aftermath of loss: the fear of their relationship breaking down, the pressure of grief and how she instinctively stepped into a supportive role to protect Bruce and ease his pain, often at the expense of her own. Louie talks about how together, they are both trying to navigate the complex reality of grief as individuals while also trying to grieve as a couple, something Louise describes as one of the hardest parts of their journey.
Louise also speaks honestly about her anxiety around returning to work while still on maternity leave, the fear of change and the uncertainty and anxiety surrounding the possibility of trying to conceive again.
This episode is a powerful reminder that there is no timeline for grief. Louise reflects on the importance of cherishing memories, including Silky’s memorial casts (funded by Making Miracles) and finding a way forward, one step at a time.
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