Time To Talk TFMR

Lucy Livesey is joining us today to talk about Mindfulness meditation and well-being during and after loss. Lucy is a mental health nurse and well-being practitioner and set up Relax with Lucy & Co. in 2017 after experiencing the death of her daughter Ellie in a TFMR. Just a little heads up, Hayley goes off on one and lets loose a couple of F-bombs - sorry about that! She was pretty pissed to...

Hello! We have another episode with a couple for our guests. This time it's with Mark and Angela Deeks. You hear from both of them about how the loss of their daughter, Laurie, to a TFMR effected them individually and as a couple. One of the things they speak so clearly about is how different their responses were to the news that Laurie was very poorly and that they would need to make a decis...

In this special episode for Baby Loss Awareness Week, we're focussing once again on surgical termination. We're speaking with Jane Fisher from Antenatal Results & Choices (ARC) and Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)  Also joining us are Sabrina Fletcher @thetfmrdoula, Emma Belle from @tfmrmamas and Paige Wissam @paigewissam. All three...

Pregnancies with multiples are automatically classed as ‘high-risk’. It’s important to highlight the heartbreak that these parents go through. There can be problems found with one or more babies, or the mothers health is at risk and they may be told to 'reduce the pregnancy', which is a TFMR. Priya joins us to talk about her and her husband, Ricky's, experience of finding out that t...

Hello! Thank you for joining us again. Today's episode is all about the immediate aftermath of TFMR. The emotional, physical and mental challenges. We're joined by Jane Fisher from Antenatal Results and Choices (Instagram @arcantenatal) and our resident specialist midwife, Sally Kelly AND several listeners of the podcast to ask their questions to the experts. Questions range from genetic...

In today's episode we're talking about trying to conceive (TTC) after TFMR with Dr Erica Rozmid. Erica is a clinical psychologist and uses cognitive behavioural and dialectical behavioural therapies (CBT & DBT) to help her clients with a range of mental health issues. Erica lost her daughter, Shayla to TFMR a few months ago and so has begun to use the techniques she teaches others on...

Welcome back! In our opening episode for season three we speak with Emma & Gareth about their experience of a TFMR in October 2020. Many of you may already know Emma from her work through the @tfmrmamas Instagram page and website she created. We hear how Emma and Gareth have each dealt differently with their anxieties around having an IVF pregnancy, finding out that something was serious wrong...

In this special episode we're joined by Jane Fisher from Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) to talk about the High-Court case heard last week (August 6, 2021) brought by three people against the UK government. They want a change in the abortion law to restrict access in post 24 week terminations for those fetus's/babies found to have a non-fatal disorder and specifically, those found to...

In today's episode we're talking with Dr Jessica Zucker. Jessica is a psychologist, writer and author specialising in reproductive and maternal mental health. She started the I Had A Miscarriage campaign in 2014 on Instagram after having her own second trimester miscarriage in 2012. She has just published a memoir of the same name. We talk to Jessica about her work with TFMR parents, how...

Hello and thank you for listening. In today's episode we are speaking with Sally Kelly, a specialist midwife in bereavement care and Steph Cunningham a TFMR mum who had a surgical termination in 2019. Steph tells us her story and her feelings around having a ST both then and now. Sally talks us through when and how a ST is offered and what her role is. We consider this episode the first of ma...

Hello and welcome to our latest episode. Our guest today is the comedian, writer and performer, Lou Conran. Lou had a TFMR in 2016 after she found out that her daughter, Emma, wasn't developing properly. Emma had a rare skeletal condition and at 21 weeks, Lou delivered her. A year later, Lou wrote and performed her comedy show, I Love Lou C to live audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival....

Hello and thank you for listening! In this episode of Time To Talk TFMR we're talking to Dr Shema Tariq about her personal experience of termination of an IVF conception.  Shema shares her story of infertility and the journey of needing to chose to use donor eggs and after finally becoming pregnant with her son Altair, the devastating consequences of her waters breaking early. This lead to he...

In today's episode we are joined by Jen Ryan. Jen is a campaigner for TFMR Ireland and LMC Bereavement Support. She is a mum who has experienced her own TFMR in 2012, before the laws changed, allowing women to access abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. We talk to her about her personal experience of having to travel to England to have her TFMR and what impact this had on her grieving proce...

Hello and thank you for listening! In today's episode we are joined by Dr Brenda Kelly. Brenda is a Consultant Obstetrician and Fetal Medicine specialist at Oxford University Hospitals Trust. She has over 20 years of experience of working with women and families. Often, when a problem is detected on a scan or through blood tests, there isn't a clear answer about what is wrong with baby....

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Sara Vincini. Sara is Italian and lives in London with her husband and son. She has been through a late term TFMR, as well as miscarriage. To raise awareness, she regularly writes about baby loss, both on social media and on her blog: O Baby Where Art Thou. We talk to Sara about the difficulty of being away from frie...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Karen Burgess, the founder and director of counselling at Petals, The Baby Loss Counselling Charity.  In this episode we talk about the complex grief that can follow a TFMR and how Petals helps parents to navigate their feelings around guilt and shame.  Please contact Petals on their helpline 0300 688 0068 or email c...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Steph Wild. Steph is a the founder of Beyond Bea Charity, a practising midwife and the mum the Bea , who she lost due to TFMR. In this episode, Steph tells us how she began her training to be a midwife at 18 and undertook to support bereaved parents from the beginning. When she became pregnant in 2017, the unthinkabl...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Sue Clachers, a bereavement support practitioner with the national charity Child Bereavement UK. Today we are talking about parenting after loss. We discuss with Sue about navigating the tricky questions about death our children may ask – how do we achieve ‘age appropriate’ answers? We also explore explaining death t...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Sabrina Fletcher, host of Our TFMR Stories on YouTube, a pregnancy loss doula and TFMR parent. Hello again! Thank you for choosing to listen to us, we’re so glad you’re here. In this episode we cover quite a lot of ground! From TFMR experiences in Mexico & the USA, where women's reproductive rights and the a...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Suzie Jay Goldsmith, a photographer, mentor and author of The Rallying Cry and two time TFMR parent. Thank you for choosing this episode! It’s one full of inspiration and hope and we so enjoyed speaking with Suzie. We talk about creative self-care after a TFMR. What does your creativity look like for you? Are you a j...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Sally Kelly, a midwife, specialising in bereavement care, within the NHS. Hello! And welcome, we are so glad you are joining us for this episode of Time To Talk TFMR, termination for medical reasons.  In this episode we are speaking to Sally Kelly, an experienced midwife, specialising in bereavement care of women and...

Hayley Manning & Catherine Mousley present Time To Talk TFMR with their guest Jane Fisher, Director of Antenatal Results and Choices. We are so glad that you have found us, although this most probably means that you, or someone very close to you, has experienced a termination for medical reasons (TFMR). We hope that you will find comfort, support, information and hope by listening to what we h...