This is where we say the things we can't say anywhere else to anyone else. Join certified life coach and stillbirth mom Jennifer Senn as she shares stories and has conversations about what life is like after suffering the loss of your baby and of the future you dreamed of before you heard those awful four words. Grief lasts a lifetime but you don't have to struggle with guilt, fear, and the isolation that is so common for loss moms. Navigating Baby Loss will give you inspiration and hope fro ...
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The ‘Now What?’ podcast is a podcast for women healing from loss that will provide you with practical ways to overcome the challenges you are facing as you navigate the aftermath of loss. After spending 10 years in Financial Services preparing people for the unexpected, Host Erin Hente comes to you with the unfortunate experience of navigating four major sudden losses in a six year period including the loss of her husband. Her and her three children, who were 5, 8, and 15 when their dad died ...
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Finding peace in life after the loss of a child. Celebrating the time you had with your beloved child. Discussing all the family, friends and people that provide support to parents that have lost a child. Interviews and conversations about loss of a child, dealing with the emotions, relationships, financial, and more. Interviews with parents that are several years removed from the loss providing insight and guidance to help navigate the pain and emotion of the loss of a child. The loss of a ...
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Welcome to The Path to Motherhood Podcast. I’m your host Sarah Brandell, an infertility and pregnancy loss mindset coach, wife, and a rainbow baby mama on a mission to help you manage your mind and emotions around the infertility rollercoaster. I know where you are because I’ve been there. I have been through the long journey to motherhood, the waiting, the fertility appointments, the testing, the unanswered questions, the medications, the shots and I am ready to help. Whether you are just g ...
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121: Creating a Life Bigger Than Grief with Melissa Hull
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49:56Send Jen a Text Message I sit down with grief educator and author Melissa Hull, who shares the unimaginable story of losing her 4-year-old son, Drew, in a tragic accident. Melissa takes us back to that devastating day and opens up about the shame, guilt, and heartbreak that followed. Through her story, she shows us how grief can become a catalyst f…
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120: The Hidden Cost of Faking You're Okay
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14:46Send Jen a Text Message We say "I'm fine" because it feels easier than explaining the truth. But what happens when you're not okay—and you keep pretending that you are? In this episode, I’m talking about what it really costs us when we hide our pain, especially around the holidays, and how we can start being more honest about what grief really look…
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119: When IVF Doesn’t Work: Grieving the Loss of Hope
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26:15Send Jen a Text Message There are many ways to lose a baby, and today’s guest Sarah Osborne shares a rarely-talked-about story of IVF loss—and what it was like to go from a mom of three teenagers to deciding to start over again. As a seasoned doula with years of experience supporting others through pregnancy, birth, and loss, Sarah found herself on…
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118: Guilt, Grief, and the 3AM Thought Spiral
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24:29Send Jen a Text Message In this second episode of the "Breaking the Silence of Stillbirth Guilt" series, I'm sharing something I struggled with deeply myself—those relentless 3:00 AM thoughts that make you feel like it's all your fault. If you ever find yourself retracing every moment of your pregnancy looking for what you missed, or blaming yourse…
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117: How Ashlie’s Embrace Is Helping Stillbirth Families Get More Time With Their Babies
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33:28Send Jen a Text Message Erin Maroon, the founder of Ashlie’s Embrace, a nonprofit that donates Cuddle Cots to hospitals across the U.S. Erin shares the heartbreaking story of losing her daughter Ashlie to stillbirth in 2015 after what was considered a healthy pregnancy. From the shock of those devastating words “Your daughter is dead,” to the raw, …
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116: Breaking the Silence Around Stillbirth Guilt
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24:22Send Jen a Text Message Have you ever felt guilty… and couldn’t even explain why? That quiet heaviness in your chest, the weight behind your shoulders, the phrases you’d never say out loud: “I should’ve known…” “My body failed.” “What if I had done something differently?” In this episode, I’m peeling back the layers of the silent, suffocating guilt…
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115: Rooted in Faith: Preparing for Birth After Baby Loss
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26:33Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Murdock, a labor and delivery nurse with over 10 years of experience, childbirth educator, and the creator of the Rooted Birth Method. Lauren brings both professional wisdom and deeply personal experience as she shares her own journey with infertility and miscarriage. We dive into the un…
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Send us a text Hello and welcome back to the Critical Junctures Podcast. Wanted to give you an update on what's been going on with the podcast, the last few weeks. We've taken a break with it just for some unexpected life events. Some of you may be aware, my youngest brother passed away and. That's just taken a lot of time that we've spent with fa…
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114: Supporting a Mom After Stillbirth: Do's and Don'ts
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27:41Send Jen a Text Message When someone you love loses a baby, your instinct is to help—but what if the things you're doing to comfort them are actually making things harder? In this episode, I walk you through the 3 most common mistakes people make when trying to support a grieving mom after stillbirth or pregnancy loss—and what to do instead. I shar…
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113: Dr. Kimberly Flemke on What Really Keeps Couples Stuck After Loss
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27:06Send Jen a Text Message After stillbirth, grief finds its way into every corner of your life. And one of the first places it often shows up? Your relationship. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Kimberly Flemke, a licensed couple and family therapist, trauma expert, and energy psychology practitioner. With nearly 30 years of experience, Dr. Kimberl…
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Chris Burton talks about the loss of his son Zach
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31:48Send us a text Chris Burton talks about the loss of his son Zach. Zach grew up playing sports and was an outstanding football player. He was loved by everyone and was a special young man. In college he and a friend tried oxycodone and became addicted. Some people have genes in their body that just trying a drug like oxycodone and it creates instant…
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112: Why It Makes Sense That You've Lost Your Purpose
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18:04Send Jen a Text Message When your baby dies, it’s not just them you lose—it’s the version of you that was going to be their mom. So what happens when the path you were on suddenly disappears? In today’s episode, I’m sharing something that so many of us loss moms silently struggle with—the deep, aching question of purpose. Who am I now that I’m no l…
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111: When Going Back to Work Feels Impossible After Baby Loss
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18:41Send Jen a Text Message You’re barely surviving most days, and now someone expects you to show up like your old self at work? Let’s be honest — returning to work after losing your baby is one of the hardest, most disorienting parts of life after loss. And it’s not just about grief — it’s about identity, exhaustion, pressure, and a complete reshuffl…
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April Babcock shares her story of losing a son and finding a mission to fight against the supply of illicit fentanyl
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37:44Send us a text April Babcock lost her son Austen to illicit fentanyl. Illicit fentanyl is a deadly drug that most people taking it think they are taking something else. April share’s her story of being in such pain after the loss of her son that she did not want life to go on. After 18 months of intense grief and going to God for help she has taken…
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Tony and Kelly Trent share their story of grief and inspiration from the loss of their son Tyler
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35:29Send us a text Tony & Kelly Trent discuss their journey of grief after the loss of their son Tyler to a rare bone cancer. Tyler’s story is unique in that his story went national. Tyler’s story has been told on TV, videos, articles and a book. He is still an inspiration to millions and his name and likeness continues to raise millions of dollars for…
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110: The Father’s Side of Stillbirth No One Talks About: My Husband's Story
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35:59Send Jen a Text Message In honor of Father’s Day, I invited my husband, David, onto the podcast for a candid and unscripted conversation about what it was really like for us to survive the loss of our stillborn twins—and what that journey looked like for our marriage, for each of us as individuals, and for the family we were trying to hold together…
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Healing after loss: A Fathers Journey Through Grief and Hope
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40:01Send us a text A father reflects on his son, who lived doing everything in life the right way. It was a reflection of a family that lived by faith, mission, purpose, hard work and love. A role model young man from a role model family and tragedy strikes through a medical condition. Wale brings a unique perspective as a father and trained medical pr…
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Official Opening Podcast of Critical Junctures from my Son's Grave Site
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12:14Send us a text Welcome to the Critical Junctures Podcast. This podcast is for parents who have lost a child and are navigating the loss of that child. Today is our first official release of the podcast and website. This is the five-year anniversary. Of my son's passing. A few days before my son's passing, he looked at me and asked the question, Dad…
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Send Jen a Text Message Have you ever looked around and thought, “Why me?” Or maybe more often, “Why not them?” In this raw and necessary episode, I’m talking about something that many of us feel but almost never say out loud: survivor’s guilt after stillbirth. That gut-punching question — Why was I allowed to live when my baby wasn’t? — doesn’t ha…
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108: How to Deal with the Loss of Friendships After Baby Loss
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11:12Send Jen a Text Message When you lose your baby, no one warns you that you might lose your friends too. The texts fade, the calls stop, and suddenly you're not just grieving your child—you’re grieving relationships you thought were solid. And that secondary loss? It hits hard. In this episode, I’m sharing a deeply personal and often overlooked part…
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107: Are You Holding Onto Grief Because You’re Afraid to Let Go?
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17:24Send Jen a Text Message This one might hit a nerve… and I’m okay with that. In this solo episode, I’m gently (and lovingly) calling out something that I see a lot in my coaching practice — and that I’ve lived through myself. I’m talking about the hidden ways we can hold onto our grief, not because we want to suffer, but because it feels like the on…
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Lexi's Story - How my son's beloved dog help us cope with his loss
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7:54Send us a textAv Rick Williams
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BONUS: What I Wish I Had After Losing My Baby
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18:00Send Jen a Text Message You are not broken. You are grieving — and doing an incredible job. In today’s solo episode, I’m sharing something deeply personal — and something that’s been a long time coming. I created The Stillbirth Roadmap because it’s exactly what I wish I’d had when I was navigating life after the loss of my twins. I remember that lo…
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Critical Junctures - Our Story of Navigating the loss of a child
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8:35Send us a text Loss of a child creates enduring grief in 93% of parents. We have lost a child and this is our story of love, loss and navigating the grief. We created Critical Junctures - Navigating the loss of Child Podcast to help other parents navigate the loss through our shared experiences. The podcast will focus on interviews of parents who h…
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Critical Junctures - Navigating the loss of a child. Introduction of the podcast
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4:27Send us a text Parents who lose a child face one of the most traumatic experiences in life. The purpose of this podcast is to share with others who have lost a child that there is recovery. Hope critical junctures will explore the choices that grieving parents have made to determine the course of their future life, the loss of a child. Can affect m…
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106: Surviving Mother’s Day Without Your Baby: A Step-by-Step Guide
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17:03Send Jen a Text Message It’s May—and if you’re a stillbirth mom, you already know what that means. Everywhere you turn, there are pastel flowers, smiling babies, and commercials shouting about the “joy of motherhood.” But for you, Mother’s Day might feel more like a punch in the chest than a celebration. In this episode, I want to offer you somethi…
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Richy's Journey: diagnosed with an incurable cancer, living life, making peace, letting go
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42:04Send us a text The moment a doctor diagnoses your child with an incurable cancer marks a dividing line in life—everything that came before, and everything that follows. For our family, learning about Richy's alveolar soft part sarcoma transformed our world completely. But what emerged from that devastating news was a remarkable nine-year journey th…
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105: Permission to Feel Pleasure: Moving Forward After Baby Loss
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35:53Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, Jennifer Senn sits down with Morgane Horn, a sex and intimacy coach, to discuss the challenges of reconnecting with your body and partner after experiencing stillbirth. They explore the feelings of betrayal many women feel toward their bodies and the complex path to finding intimacy again. Morgan shares prac…
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Sharing Travel Adventures and Conversations that my Son would have cherished
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4:24Send us a text My son loved travel. A business trip that took me to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe would have created conversations for months. During my travel, thinking of how much Richy would have enjoyed the conversations and discussions. He is no longer with us but his passion for travel and learn about cultures, geography, religion,…
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104: Navigating Baby Announcements and Showers After Loss
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9:24Send Jen a Text Message Struggling to tell where grief ends and guilt begins? This free journal is for you. Five gentle, trauma-informed prompts to help release the "what ifs" and reconnect with your baby through love instead of blame. Work through it at your own pace — no pressure, just comfort. Download now at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal Downl…
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103: How to Cope with the Worry of Another Pregnancy Loss
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12:02Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, Jen discusses the pervasive fear many moms experience about becoming pregnant again after a stillbirth. She provides insights on why this fear exists, ways to manage it, and steps to move past it. Key points include making an informed decision with the support of a doctor, preparing both mind and body for pr…
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102: How to Deal With Comments From Others
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12:17Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, we address the challenges of handling insensitive comments following a stillbirth. Jen highlights her personal experiences and professional insights, she provides strategies for setting boundaries and communicating effectively with those who may not understand the grief of losing a baby. She emphasizes the i…
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101: How to Navigate Life After Stillbirth: Healing, Hope, and Support for Moms
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37:25Send Jen a Text Message This episode is the conversation I had recently on an episode of Mom Essentials. Angie Weber and I tackled one of the hardest parts of motherhood—losing a child. I shared my personal story of loss at 32 weeks and how that experience led hme to create my coaching practice, Navigating Baby Loss. Together, we talk about what gr…
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100: Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Journey of Healing and Hope
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15:34Send Jen a Text Message In this special 100th episode of the Navigating Baby Loss podcast, host Jennifer Sin reflects on her journey from her very first recording to now. Jennifer shares the growth and milestones of the podcast, including its high rankings in the parenting and family categories. She discusses various tough topics addressed in previ…
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99: Grief Yoga: A Powerful Tool for Healing and Emotional Release
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33:51Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, I sit down with Jillene Gallatin, a grief and loss coach and yoga instructor, to explore the power of movement and mindfulness in healing. Jillene shares her deeply personal story of losing her mother to suicide at just 14 years old and how she struggled with isolation in a world that didn’t talk about grief…
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98: Should I Be Over It By Now? The Truth About Grief After Stillbirth
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10:23Send Jen a Text Message Do you feel like you "should be over it" by now? If you've ever wondered why you're still feeling the pain of your baby's loss even as time has passed, this episode is for you. Jennifer shares insights into why grief lingers, how to cope with societal pressures, and practical steps you can take to honor your baby while allow…
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97: How to Cope with Your Baby’s Due Date or Stillbirth Anniversary
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10:23Send Jen a Text Message Facing the anniversary of your baby’s due date or stillbirth is one of the hardest milestones to navigate after loss. Whether your due date is approaching or has already passed, it can bring a mix of emotions—grief, sadness, longing, and even moments of peace. In this episode of Navigating Baby Loss, I share my personal expe…
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96: Resuming Intimacy After Baby Loss: From Grief to Connection
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10:38Send Jen a Text Message This episode discusses the deeply personal and often challenging journey of resuming intimacy after baby loss. Grief can impact every aspect of life, including your relationship with your partner. Whether you’re feeling fear, guilt, anxiety, or even anger, you are not alone. Join me as we explore how to navigate these emotio…
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95: Dealing with Grief While Parenting
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10:49Send Jen a Text Message In this episode of the Navigating Baby Loss Podcast, Jennifer Senn explores the heavy burden of guilt that stillbirth moms often feel when trying to parent their living children while grieving. Jennifer offers compassionate insights into why these feelings are so common and shares practical tips to help you balance your grie…
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94: The ‘What Ifs’ That Keep You Up at Night: Letting Go of Self-Blame
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12:22Send Jen a Text Message We dive into one of the heaviest parts of grief after losing a baby: the relentless 'What Ifs.' What if I had gone to the hospital sooner? What if I had rested more? What if I had done something differently? These thoughts are not just fleeting—they become stones we carry, weighing us down day and night. Jennifer Senn shares…
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93: Talking About Your Baby After Loss: How to Share Their Story with Friends and Family
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10:10Send Jen a Text Message This episode explores the topic of talking to friends and family about your baby. Sharing your baby’s story is a powerful way to honor their memory, but it’s not always easy. Jen dives into why these conversations matter, why others might struggle to respond well, and practical tips for starting these tender discussions in a…
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92: When Jealousy Hurts: Coping with Seeing Others Have What You Longed For After Baby Loss
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11:21Send Jen a Text Message Have you ever felt a sharp pang of jealousy seeing a glowing pregnant woman, a joyful birth announcement, or a mom effortlessly juggling her baby and toddler? If so, you’re not alone—and you’re not a bad person for feeling that way. In this episode, I dive deep into the raw and relatable experience of jealousy after baby los…
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91:When Grief Changes You: Embracing the ‘New You’ After Loss
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17:26Send Jen a Text Message After the loss of a baby, many parents find themselves asking, “When will I feel like myself again?” Jennifer shares her own experiences and offers compassionate insights into how grief impacts our relationships, shifts our worldview, and reshapes our identity. Listeners will learn how to navigate changing friendships, appre…
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90: New Year, Same Journey: Carrying Your Baby's Memory Forward
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18:25Send Jen a Text Message In this episode of the Navigating Baby Loss podcast, host Jennifer Senn discusses the challenges that come with moving into a new year after the loss of a baby. She shares personal experiences and common feelings of anxiety, sadness, and guilt that many stillbirth and loss moms face during this time. Jennifer offers practica…
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89.Overcoming Fear of Bonding with a New Baby After Stillbirth
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16:41Send Jen a Text Message In this episode of Navigating Baby Loss, we discuss a sensitive but important topic: the fear of bonding with a new baby after experiencing the heartbreak of loss. While this fear may feel isolating, it’s more common than you think, and it does not make you a bad mom. Jen shares why it’s normal to feel disconnected or cautio…
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88: Healing Through Movement: How Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Supports Grief Recovery
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30:41Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, I sit down with Janice Eisman, a trauma-sensitive movement specialist, to discuss how trauma is stored in the body and why addressing it through movement is a vital part of the healing process. Janice shares her expertise in trauma-sensitive yoga, a powerful tool for those experiencing lingering effects of l…
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87: When Grief Feels Never-Ending: Coping With Holidays, Milestones and Triggers
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17:10Send Jen a Text Message In this episode, Jen discusses the challenges of facing the holiday season after the loss of a baby. While holidays are often seen as a time of joy, they can be an incredibly painful reminder of what is missing for grieving parents. Jen shares her personal story of navigating her first Thanksgiving just weeks after losing he…
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100. Celebrating the Journey: The Path to Motherhood is Taking a Break
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8:59Send us a textIn this episode of The Path to Motherhood, I reflect on the incredible journey we’ve shared over 100 episodes. Together, we’ve explored the highs and lows of navigating infertility, celebrated growth, and embraced authentic living. Today, I share my gratitude for this community, recap some of the most impactful moments, and leave you …
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86: Conquering Fear of Pregnancy After Loss
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15:58Send Jen a Text Message In this episode of the *Navigating Baby Loss* podcast, Jen delves into the complex journey of pregnancy after loss, a path filled with fear, hope, and vulnerability. Drawing from her personal experience of becoming pregnant just four months after the loss of her twin daughters, Jen offers compassionate advice and actionable …
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99. Finding Your True Self on the Infertility Path
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13:27Send us a textIn this episode, we explore what it means to live authentically, especially after experiencing deep challenges like infertility. I share client stories and practical tips for honoring your emotions without getting stuck in victimhood or societal expectations. Discover how embracing your true self can help you navigate even the hardest…
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