Baby Loss, Grief & Love
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Baby Loss, Grief and Love is a podcast hosted by Kelly Wells MBACP, Founder and CEO of Making Miracles Charity, a specialist in pregnancy, birth trauma, and baby loss, providing training for NHS staff. The charity offers trauma and bereavement care through professional counselling, a baby memorial garden, support groups, a published children's book, and home therapy Care Boxes. It is the..
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
2M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Chris, Founder & CEO of fundraising platform GoodHub to the podcast.
Making Miracle's use GoodHub for all online donations and ticketed events.
We have recently got to know Chris through the partnership and found out that Chris has personal experience of baby bereavement, trauma and loss. Chris was so brave and kind enough to share his story with us.
Back in 2006 Chris and his then partner experienced an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, near loss of his partner's life and failed IVF.
Chris explains about the differences between their emoti ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
2M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Natalie to the Podcast.
Natalie wanted to come on a share her story in memory of her son Alfie. Alfie was born at 28 weeks premature and sadly died in hospital, at only 5 months old.
Natalie relives her traumatic time living within the NICU walls but also shares her happy memories with Alfie. Tragically, behind Alfies smiles he was extremely poorly and sadly could not surrive with out life support.
Natalie and Kelly talk about the horrific decisions Natalie and her family faced leading unto and after Alfie's death. She explains how she needed and w ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
3M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes, service user, Bec to the podcast.
Bec opens up about her missed miscarriage and how isolated she felt after her loss. Bec describes how she felt like a complete failure and believed it was all her fault.
After having counselling with Making Miracles she worked through her trauma, loss and was able to process her feelings differently and eventually, after a long time, say the words "it wasn't my fault".
Kelly and Bec talk about validation and how talking about her loss and being surrounded by people who have also experienced baby loss, surprisingly comfo ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
3M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Sarah to the podcast.
January is an extremely trigging month for Sarah and it was important for her to come on and share her story. One, to show she is still here and still standing but also for her son, Mylo.
This January marks the 4th year of loosing her son Mylo, the 3rd year loosing her Mum to Covid, as well as, her daughters 3rd birthday.
Sarah really opens up and discusses how she struggles with the acceptance of all her grief. Sarah explains 'The Baby Loss Club' is the one club you don't have a choice to be a part of, and that's tough ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
4M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes service user Megan to the podcast.
Megan shares her journey of pregnancy trauma, premature birth and the loss of her daughter Grace.
Grace had a heart condition and Megan bravely speaks about her emotional experience of constant medical appointments which lead to her feeling extremely isolated and alone. Whilst Grace was in NICU, at just 3 days old, she had heart surgery but sadly there was nothing else they could do for her.
Absolutely heart broken and trying to process her daughter’s death, Megan discusses the language and lack of support s ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
5M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Vicki Harmer from Long Reach Nutrition Clinic to the Podcast.
Vicki shares her 5 year journey of IVF & fertility struggles. She opens up about having counselling and explains how it benefited her massively but wishes she had taken it up sooner.
After a long 5 years, Vicki finally got her daughter and decided to make some big life changes. Vicki was searching and trying everything to give herself the best chance of a positive pregnancy test and received the most amazing care from her nutritionist. She was totally inspired by this and left h ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
5M ago
On this episode Kelly welcomes 'service user' Katy to the podcast. Katy has used our counselling service, joined our support group and has a plaque at our Baby Memorial Garden.
Katy shares her heartbreaking loss of daughter Freya, at 22 weeks through TFMR. She explains how difficult the decision was and she just didn't want Freya in any pain.
One of the main reasons for Katy coming on was to open up about her relationship breakdown after losing Freya. She shares how on top her grief for Freya she was grieving her relationship and her future. She felt scared and extremely is ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
6M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes team member Becci to the Podcast. Becci joined Team MM back in 2015 to support families after her journey of IVF & loss.
Over 16 years ago Becci experienced multiple ectopic pregnancies which sadly resulted in the removal of both her Fallopian tubes. This lead to the start of her IVF journey as she shares the emotional, physical and financial burden that comes with it.
After her first NHS free IVF round sadly, wasn't successful, Becci bravely explains how she felt like a failure, feeling extremely anxious & alone. Their journey continued and ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
6M ago
On this episode Kelly welcomes 'service user' Katy to the podcast. Katy has used our counselling service, joined our support group and has a plaque at our Baby Memorial Garden.
Katy shares her heartbreaking loss of daughter Freya, at 22 weeks through TFMR. She explains how difficult the decision was and she just didn't want Freya in any pain.
One of the main reasons for Katy coming on was to open up about her relationship breakdown after losing Freya. She shares how on top her grief for Freya she was grieving her relationship and her future. She felt scared and extremely is ..read more
Baby Loss, Grief & Love
8M ago
On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Rachel, from sunny Devon, to the podcast.
Rachel explains how isolated she felt after the loss of her daughter Isla and wants
to raise awareness of the affects of Hydrops
(NHS definition of Hydrops Fetalis . Foetal hydrops is a rare but very serious condition in which an unborn baby accumulates excessive fluid within their body. Six out of ten babies with foetal hydrops die, and those that survive often have very severe complications. )
Rachel talks about her birth trauma and the whole experience of having to deal with the reality of giving birth to her ..read more