Healing Mothers After Pregnancy and Infant Loss – Podcast Ep 19
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Healing Mothers After Pregnancy and Infant Loss – Podcast Ep 19

This is for all the families who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss. One mother shares her experience and offers advice.

Published October 15, 2019

by Nina Spears

The Baby Chick®: Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Expert
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You may not know this, but October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and October 15th is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.1,2 So many families have experienced these heartbreaking losses. Today, I’m chatting with one of my former doula clients, turned friend Megan McAlister, who is one of those families. Megan is a mother of four surviving children, ages 8, 6, 3, and 1. She is passionate about her experience with neonatal loss and her three subsequent VBACs (vaginal births after cesarean). Originally from Texas, her family now lives in Portland, Oregon.

I am so honored that Megan is on today’s episode of Chick Chat. She shares her story of infant loss and what families can do to heal after experiencing such a devastating loss. I hope that today’s episode gives hope and comfort to families who have experienced or are experiencing these tragic journeys of pregnancy and infant loss.

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Nina is The Baby Chick® & Editor-in-Chief of Baby Chick®. She received her baby planning certification in early 2011 and began attending births that same year. Since then, Nina has received her birth doula and postpartum doula certifications from DONA International, her childbirth educator certification from ICEA, her Hynobabies Hypno-Doula certification, and her infant massage instructor certification from Loving Touch, among other certifications. Nina has used her knowledge and expertise to teach and support families during their pregnancies, at their births, and throughout their postpartum journeys for over a decade.

Early in her career, Nina acquired her nickname from one of her birth doula clients, who lovingly referred to her as “The Baby Chick.” The “chick” who knows all about babies.…

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