Cry It Out Loud: Navigating Infertility, Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Infant Loss & Pregnancy After Loss

During this weekly Bre and Bee weekly segment, we discuss questions and topics that survivors face when returning in front of people after baby loss. How many children do you have, birthdays and holidays, treasured items and sacred spaces - all things survivors are left to think about after our horrific losses. We are discussing these difficult topics for survivors to prepare themselves. Please fo...

In honor of October Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, this segment is for baby loss survivors and their support system. Bre and Bee discuss the comments people have made to them after their losses. It's time to address the words that are said, rather than accepting those remarks and being silenced. These insensitive comments need to stop. They discuss actions and words the support sys...

Dr. Serena Wu is MD, FACOG, is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist who has experienced her own baby loss. We address questions from two fellow survivors about their loss that has been on their minds. For processing loss and healing, we want to help give survivors some peace from feeling unsettled. During the whirlwind of traumatic events, it's hard to know what to ask or what to say at that u...

Bre and Bee share their experience with the 4th Phase of Grief, Reorganization and Recovery. In this phase, they finally felt like they could breath after losing their babies. They started to have some good days and some not so good days but every minute of everyday wasn't consumed with grief. They started to enjoy different aspects of life again and started to see hope in their futures. If yo...

The Founder of Chasing the Rainbows, Bernice Quesenberry, shares her experience with the 3rd Phase of Grief, Disorganization and Despair. The feeling of void, emptiness and reality set in all at once. She had to work through and process the new reality and future that no longer included their baby. If you or someone you know needs a network of survivors, please visit  http://ChasingTheRainbows.org...

The Founder of Chasing the Rainbows, Bernice Quesenberry, shares her experience with the 2nd Phase of Grief, Searching and Yearning. The ultimate search for answers, wanting clarity, and trying to fill the emptiness and void that fully consume survivors during this phase isn't talked about enough. She ultimately came to terms with ways to connect with her daughter after processing this phase....

Bre and Bee discuss the 1st phase of grief, shock and numbness. What it's like actually living through this phase immediately after our losses. The lack of memory, concentration, and emotion really was our minds protecting us while our new reality sets in. We discuss what we physically, emotionally and mentally went through during this phase. If you or someone you know needs a network of survi...

We are shedding the light on Pregnancy after Loss for those survivors who are living it right now. We want to let survivors know you are not alone and your feelings, fears and emotions are valid! We are hoping by talking about our own experiences, what helped us through those months, that it helps others along their journey. We have daily, free, virtual support groups and one on one mentorships at...

The Founder of Chasing the Rainbows, Bernice Quesenberry, shares her story on air for the first time. Brooke's story involves secondary infertility, abnormal growths and menstrual cycles, advanced maternal age, 28 week delivery, NICU life, and ultimately losing her daughter in her arms at 5 1/2 weeks old. There were multiple events that played out in the less than 1% probable causes that led t...

Infertility needs to be considered a major medical condition. In this episode, we are discussing secondary infertility. Right now, 19 states out of 50 cover infertility treatments. While our 501(c)3 nonprofit was doing a June World Infertility Awareness month viral challenge, #fertilityloss is a barely used hashtag. This type of loss needs to be looked at as the serious reproductive organ disease...

Moments of guilt along with would of, could of, should of's, sneak into survivors minds at different points in our journeys. Talking about it out loud helps us to normalize our feelings and thoughts while processing our losses and yearning for different outcomes. We are bringing this topic to light in hopes of helping fellow survivors. Please visit CryItOutLoudPodcast.org for other daily suppo...

Dr. Serena Wu is MD, FACOG, is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist who has experienced her own baby loss. To help fellow survivors feel comfortable asking any and all questions weighing on their mind, the Founder of our 501(c)3 non-profit, Chasing the Rainbows, asks questions from her loss two years later to gain clarity around those events in this episode. For processing loss and healing, we wan...

This is the first birth trauma, fertility loss, pregnancy loss, and baby loss survivor podcast that is about living life after our traumatic losses. We will be featuring a monthly “Ask a Maternal Fetal Medicine Doctor” segment where listeners can write in to ask about your loss to get answered on air for healing and processing. We also will be hosting a monthly “Father’s Perspective” segment to gi...