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Female Voices: Life and Loss
Female Voice: Life & Loss. Our podcast is dedicated to women from all walks of life, providing a supportive and encouraging platform that addresses the various challenges they face. We aim to offer compassionate guidance, share diverse stories, and equip listeners with practical advice and resources to help them grow, heal, and thrive through every stage of their journey.
Episodes
- Female Voices: Life and Loss
55. Continue on the Infertility Journey or Not with Rachael Beckemeyer
Rachael is still on her journey of infertility. She has had 4 miscarriages and has gone through 3 IUI cycles. With her first pregnancy she was very excited to…
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54. IVF retrieval canceled three times with Liane Moccia
Liane Moccia shares her infertility journey which included being given the diagnosis of unexplained infertility. She said I just assumed when we decided to…
Female Voices: Life and Loss53. Finding Peace Through the Infertility Journey with Allison Hursey
Allison and her husband Chris were given that frustrating diagnosis of unexplained infertility. They went through many tests, tried clomid, had a HSG and tried…
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52. Traumatic Journey to Motherhood with Erica McAfee
Erica McAfee is the Founder and CEO of Sisters in Loss, a maternal child health company that helps Black women replace silence with storytelling around…
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51. Ways to Honor, Celebrate, and Remember your child
Sarah has been intentional about creating ways to honor, celebrate and remember her stillborn daughter Ellie. She feels blessed that she can honor Ellie so…
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50. Spreading Awareness about Didelphys Uterus
La-Anna is an amazing woman that has experienced a tremendous amount of pain with horrible periods starting at age 10. She was misdiagnosed for many years…
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49. Spreading Awareness about Surrogacy
Brittney Crunk shared a tremendous amount of great information about her journey to help families have a baby to love by being their surrogate. She is very…
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Episode 48 I am here to help you on your journey
The learnings I have received over the last year of hosting and recording Labor Pains podcast have been 1 of the most rewarding and memorable years of my life…
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Episode 47 Using Mindfulness to Heal
Candace Kluba said before my loss I looked on the bright side of things and after, I had a hard time feeling or being positive. Now I am very passionate about…
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Episode 46 Forgiveness after blaming myself for the loss of my babies
Tameika Thomas lost her twin daughters at 26 weeks and blamed herself for several years. She just keeps herself going at a very fast pace with work and school…
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Episode 45 All The Love, Healing Your Heart & Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss
Kim Hooper, Meredith Resnick and Dr. Huong Diep are co-authors of All The Love, Healing Your Heart and Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss. They are authors…
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Episode 44 National Foster Care Month
May is National Foster Care Month and Stacy Williams is a Foster Care mom that spoke about some myths of Foster Care and about the option of fostering to have…
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Episode 43 Miraculous things happen that are unexplained
Kim Hooper had a very unique journey to become a mom of 1 daughter here on earth. She had 4 pregnancies that ended in loss before having a pregnancy with no…
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Episode 42 Allow yourself to feel all the feelings of pregnancy loss
Melissa Sulley has 2 living children on earth, 1 on the way and 7 babies in the stars that did not make it earth side. Due to all her losses Melissa is a…
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Episode 41 National Infertility Awareness Week
This episode was recording to increase the awareness of infertility. Infertility effects 1 in 8 couples in the United States, which translates to 7.5 million…
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Episode 40 Sarah Clark's diagnosis lead her to use donor eggs to have children
Sarah Clark wanted to be married at 25 and kids by 28. When she went off the pill, which was falsely regulating her periods, they again became irregular and…
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Episode 39 A miscarriage but there was no baby, it has a Blighted Ovum
Kelsey shares her story about not wanted to have children when her and her husband married but they were bitten by the baby bug. After several months of trying…
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Episode 38 Talking about Fee Fee is NEVER off limits
Andy Karam and his wife experience a tremendous loss of their 2-year-old daughter Fee-Fee due to an accident and then while still grieving were surprised with…
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Episode 37 She eats ice cream and Doritos & I eat healthy! Why am I having so many problems?
Kristin had a very long journey down the infertility and loss road. Clomid, Letrozole, IUI, change of doctor, a multitude of test, IVF, and losses all along…
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Episode 36 Ann said I was in labor for her 4 years
Ann said I wanted a baby, and my body did not agree with that. She did a lot of research and one of the things she learned was how amazingly difficult it was…
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Episode 35 Pushing family away to grieve my son
Shannon started bleeding at 16 weeks pregnant and was told that she was probably having a miscarriage. She did not miscarry but was put on bedrest and…
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Episode 34 I still wonder what it would feel like to be pregnant.
Barb and Jim spent 5 years on the infertility path and the journey was up and down for both of them. It was a very emotional time with questions like, Why us?…
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Episode 33 I thought my uterus was retired until we heard about Snowflake Embryo Adoptions
The Journey from a vasectomy to IVF to being foster parents to embryo adoption to the family God had planned for us. Desiree and her family were all heart…
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Episode 32 Our IVF was textbook, first attempt and we were pregnant.
Rachal said, we were healthy and ready to start our family. We had good jobs, a house, savings accounts, and we had even checked out daycares, but it was not…
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Episode 31 There is life after pregnancy loss and let it be a new beginning.
All the plans I had for my son ended at a 35-week routine doctor’s appointment when we were told there was no heartbeat. Those were the hardest words I had…
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Episode 30 My Heart Is Over Flowing With Joy.
I wanted to share the joy in my heart today for all the guest I have had over the last six months. They have all been amazing in sharing so much information to…
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Episode 29 Sorry for the loss of your baby, Share Organization will support you
Anne & Patti from the National Share Office are two amazingly compassionate women that will work diligently with their staff to find you the support you need…
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Episode 28 Walking the infertility Path
Roxy Jenkins is the mom of 1 daughter and 4 angels, and their journey is not over. Even though she was diagnosed with PCOS in high school she did not know that…
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Episode 27 From baby loss to changing the lives of many children.
Stacy Williams is a woman who has touched and changed the lives of hundreds of children in the St. Louis Area. She knew when she was 11 or 12 years old that…
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Episode 26 Robyn decided while struggling with infertility, I am not taking no until God himself says no
Robyn thought it would be easy to have children since she and her husband Matt both came from large families. We tried clomid for 19 months and I had some…
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Episode 25 We spent hundreds of dollars on pregnancy test and waited 9 years for a live birth.
Connie said we were the first to get married of our friends and last to have children. We struggled with infertility due to PCOS, but once we started to…
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Episode 24 Shannon is still hopeful for a family even after multiple miscarriages and having child that was stillborn
Shannon is an inspiration for all women who are struggling with having a live birth. With all six pregnancies, she has endured painful cramping and bleeding…
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Episode 23 An infertility journey due to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with Cassie & Mike
Cassie & Mike knew that their desire to have a family was not going to be easy due to Cassie having severe PCOS. After talking with their doctor and trying…
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Episode 22 Dawn was told at 12 weeks her daughter had Trisomy 18
Dawn describes herself as a train wreck during her pregnancy with Zoey who was diagnosed with Trisomy 18. Listen to how she navigated through such devastating…
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Episode 21 Flourishing after pregnancy loss and very difficult pregnancies with Ann-Marie
Ann-Marie had so much trauma on her journey to have a family. She experienced severe Hyperemesis Gravidarum in several of her pregnancy and was hospitalized…
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Episode 20 A feared question. How many children do you have?
Carol said our mindset needs to be shifted from the expectation that every women that becomes pregnant is going to have a 40-week healthy baby. That in itself…
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Episode 19 Early and late pregnancy losses and then infertility was very hard on our marriage.
Candace and her husband experienced a very early miscarriage that they did not completely heal from until they lost their little girl at 21 weeks. They then…
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Episode 18 A few do's and don'ts to help support a friend through loss
Derlene is a dear friend and personal development success coach that had a few questions about supporting friends through infertility struggles and loss. We…
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Episode 17 We Prayed for 1,746 days for this moment.
Nichole and her husbands journey started in 2011. They had no idea that they would have to experience so many losses, test, procedures, surgeries, IUI's and…
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Episode 16 My deep dark anxiety started with the first miscarriage.
Amanda shares her journey through some very tough years of anxiety. I remember when I was told, I am sorry your baby passed away 4 weeks ago. There are moments…
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Episode 15: How a Grief Coach helps others through their loss.
Joann Michalik is a Certified Grief Coach with Ouch It's Grief. She shared her story of the loss of her 4-year-old son and then a miscarriage that put her…
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Episode 14 So much struggling but now I'm called a mom through foster care
Megan and her husband struggled for 4 years to have a family. She said it felt like a chore to try to conceive while on fertility drugs. They looked at…
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Episode 13: We chose adoption after infertility struggles and loss
During her residence to become a physician Dr. Molina started struggling with infertility and loss. After 3 miscarriages she then experienced not being able to…
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Episode 12: Started a nonprofit to help others that have lost a child
Tameika went to the doctor to have a procedure done to find out that she was pregnant. This was devastating and shocking news for a single woman who was about…
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Episode 11: Dr Kristan has a 100% success rate
Dr. Kristan Wilson is a board-certified chiropractic physician in both Missouri and Illinois. With having hormonal struggles at a very young age she has a…
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Episode 10: Diagnosed with Infertility
Have you been given the awful diagnosis of infertility? It seems to be given frequently and is very devastating to receive. Brittany and her husband wanted a…
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Episode 9 Losing a Baby Days After The Most Joyful Day of Your Life
Denise and her husband lost their beautiful daughter Molly Rose days after delivery, due to a heart condition. She was just born before the advance in…
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Episode 8 Share Organization for Support
Barb is a nurse at Anderson Hospital in Maryville, IL, and manages the Share Organization at the hospital. She is a woman who has many years of experience on…
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Episode 7 Do What You Need To Do To Honor Your Child
Jeff and his wife decided while dating that they would need to start a family right away after getting married due to their age. Well, they started a little…
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Episode 6 Finding A Way to Cope With The Monthly Disappointments
When Joey and her husband married, they did not want to have children and their pastor had done an assessment of their compatibility. They did awesome in every…
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Episode 5 It happened in God's Time after 31 months of disappointment
Jamie and DJ had a beautiful blended family, but they wanted a baby together. The first challenge was to reverse a vasectomy that DJ had 13 years earlier…
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Episode 4 Finding Joy After Losing a Child at 36 weeks of Pregnancy
Sarah and her husband have found a way to live a life of joy while still feeling grief. She went for a routine doctor’s appointment to find out that her baby…
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Episode 3 We Wanted Our Own Baby.......We Chose Surrogacy
Melanie and her husband Bob went through several years of enduring loss after loss after loss to now have their miracle daughter because of a family members…
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Episode 2 Find The Right Doctor & Seek Wise Counsel
Summer Bruhn shares her story to have a family of her own. They tried Clomid, IUI and IVF. Have you been told there is no medical reason why you are not…
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Episode 1 You Are Not Alone
Women and Men feel totally alone when they can not conceive a child or when they have lost a child. The blame is REAL. I couldn't have the boys my husband…