Dad Always

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Today's episode reflects on a different kind of loss: pet loss. In this experience, putting down my cat became the gateway to connecting with different aspects of baby loss. Lucky, my cat, was part of our home’s heartbeat, and the speed of his decline shook me more than I expected. From the first signs something was wrong to t...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? This episode, released in 2023 on The Miscarriage Dad's Podcast, is reappropriated from another podcast I hosted called " Welcome To Fatherhood ".  SHOW NOTES A doctor shrugs after telling a couple they’re going to lose their twins, and that single moment becomes a scar you can feel years later. Brandon Byrnes joins...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Grief doesn’t end when the world stops checking on you. Sometimes it waits, quiet and contained, until another loss cracks the container and everything rushes back. This week concludes my conversation rich conversation with Azher Rubanni, a dad who has lived with infant loss for two decades, and he shares the moment he realized tha...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? How do you live after your baby dies without feeling like you’re betraying them by surviving? That question sits at the center of my conversation with Azher Rubanni, a father who lost his son Hashim in a full-term stillbirth 20 years ago. We get honest about what many dads feel but rarely say: the pressure to be the “strong one,” t...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Today I conclude my conversation with Ross Knight, a pastor and husband, who learns, painfully and honestly, that trying to be “the strong one” can become a way of disappearing from your own grief. We talk about miscarriage from a father’s perspective, the invisible pressure to keep functioning, and the moment he realizes he has be...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? The part of baby loss we don’t hear enough is what happens to dads when everyone assumes we’re “fine.” This week I speak with my friend, Ross Knight, for a raw conversation about infertility, IVF, miscarriage, and the quiet ways grief shows up in men who are trying to hold everything together. Ross shares the road from early marria...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Silence can be louder than any sound you’ve ever heard, and for parents facing stillbirth, that silence doesn’t end when you leave the hospital. Today we hear from David Ryall, a bereaved father living in Australia, sharing the story of his son Daniel (Danya), born in Bali, and the surprising way love can show up right beside shock...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Silence can be louder than any sound you’ve ever heard, and for parents facing stillbirth, that silence doesn’t end when you leave the hospital. Today we hear from David Ryall, a bereaved father living in Australia, sharing the story of his son Daniel (Danya), born in Bali, and the surprising way love can show up right beside shock...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? When you’ve just heard “ there’s no heartbeat ,” even a casual “ congratulations ” can feel like the world is refusing to acknowledge you and the  reality you now inhabit. That  moment is where trust breaks, grief compounds, and dads default to  silence and isolation. Today I’m joined by Dr. Nina Paidas-Teefey , MFM/Fetal Intervent...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Grief has a way of burning off the myths we inherit about manhood. When the storm hits, bravado, control, and silence stop working. We open up a candid conversation with John Kammer , a new father who lost three close friends, got sober, and rebuilt his inner life around accountability and honest feeling. His journey led to Guardia...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? This week concludes my conversation with Jane Armstrong, LCSW-S, QCSW, PMH-C. Jane is a TFMR & miscarriage mom, a native Texan transplanted in Colorado, & a clinical social worker certified in perinatal mental health. Following the birth & death of her first child, Frankie, through TFMR, Jane opened Both/And Therapy , P...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? This week's guest is Jane Armstrong, LCSW-S, QCSW, PMH-C. Jane is a TFMR & miscarriage mom, a native Texan transplanted in Colorado, & a clinical social worker certified in perinatal mental health. Following the birth & death of her first child, Frankie, through TFMR, Jane opened Both/And Therapy , PPLC to provide...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Some moments break language and redraw our lives in an instant. " Dear Brother " is a raw, compassionate letter to men grieving the death of their child—a message that refuses easy answers and hollow comfort, and instead offers steady presence, honest words, and space to breathe. It highlights the questions that echo afte...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? This is part 2 of my conversation with Michael Elliot. We resume from where we left off last week, and explore fatherhood after miscarriage through vivid memories, tangible rituals, and the everyday courage it takes to speak a child’s name that few got to meet. Grief is framed as love that changed color, sustained by community, sto...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? In part 1 of my conversation with Michael Elliot, we trace Michael’s path from early joy and provider pressure to the ultrasound room where a missed heartbeat rewrote his future. He unpacks stoicism, the awkward retraction of public joy, and why men’s grief after baby loss must be seen, named, and supported. KEY TAKEAWAYS : • fear...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Grief doesn’t hand out uniforms, but our systems still dress dads in silence. Gabriela Rosa joins the podcast to spotlight the missing half of fertility care and the very real ways men carry loss—often without acknowledgment, language, or a place to stand. From first ultrasounds to failed transfers, the default model treats women a...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? On today's episode, Matt Whitehouse retraces the day his daughter Callie died, how grief transformed his identity, and how the right type of communication, counseling, and community helped him rebuild. He shares why he now supports bereaved dads and how a daily 10K run in 2026 honors Callie’s tenth birthday. Key Takeaways: • L...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? In this episode of Dad Always , host Kelly Jean-Philippe shares the story behind “Love Letter,” the theme song for the podcast. Through personal reflection, Kelly explores how poetry became his first language for emotion, how grief after four miscarriage losses silenced that voice, and how it eventually found its way back. He speak...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Dad Always opens with a clear promise: this is a home for fathers and families carrying baby loss, where grief does not need to be defended and love is allowed to last.  We share five core beliefs, outline the formats to come, and introduce the story behind the theme song, " Love Letter " (more in Episode 2). Key takeaway...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Four words can slice through a tender moment of grief: “At least it was” (now, fill in the blank). We’ve heard it, we’ve felt the sting, and we wanted to unpack why platitudes show up so easily—especially around miscarriage—and what to say (and not say) when someone you love is hurting. Sophie from Miscarriage Mumma Support joins u...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? A lot of people want to help—and end up reaching for the worst sentence in the English language: “Everything happens for a reason.” We go straight at the hard stuff with the hosts of the Still Parents podcast, unpacking why platitudes land like a slap, how they fuel self‑doubt for grieving parents, and what real support sounds like...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Welcome to the Narrative Series, a poetic frame exploring a father's perspective of pregnancy and pregnancy loss. What happens when grief meets love on Father's Day? This poignant episode features a heart-wrenching letter written from the perspective of an unborn child to their father. The raw emotions capture both the de...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Welcome to the Narrative Series, a poetic frame exploring the father's perspective of pregnancy and pregnancy loss experience. Often times during a bereavement, the dad's experience of loss is drastically different than that of the mother. A study titled, “ Men’s grief following pregnancy loss and neonatal loss: a systema...

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Welcome to the Narrative Series, a poetic frame exploring the father's perspective of pregnancy and pregnancy loss experience. Narrated by: Kelly Jean-Philippe Music: Cosmic Oceans by Caleb Etheridge From: Podcastle.ai LICENCE #: QFWRAL6SHKWJJNYF

How has Dad Always helped you redefine fatherhood after your loss? Hello! This week's episode recalls the conversation we had in episode 14 with Sophie, founder of Miscarriage Mumma Support , in March 3, 2024. We hope you find listening to this episode again as helpful as we've experienced it to be for us. For more information visit www.miscarriagemumma.com . To connect with Kelly and Ch...