Navigating Baby Loss

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You weren't being too sensitive. They were being thoughtless. Those are not the same thing.
You know the comment. The one your sister said at brunch. The one your best friend sent over text. "You can always try again." "At least you know you can get pregnant." "Maybe by this time next year you'll have your baby." When it comes from a stranger, you can write it off. But when it comes from someone your own age, someone who knew your baby, someone who was supposed to be in your corner, that's a different kind of wound.
In this episode, I'm talking about why those comments hit the way they do, and why it has nothing to do with you needing thicker skin. We'll get into the second sentence hiding underneath the words, the freeze response that keeps you from saying anything in the moment, and why your baby was never a rough draft or a practice round. I'm also sharing what someone said to me after I lost my girls, and how it quietly changed the way I let people in.
What you'll learn:
Why a comment from your sister or best friend cuts so much deeper than one from a stranger at Target
The unspoken second sentence underneath "next year you'll have your baby"  and why you're not imagining it
Why your body freezes when someone says the wrong thing, and why that's survival, not weakness
How to stop carrying shame about the things you didn't say in the moment
Why your baby is not a stepping stone, a placeholder, or a first draft — and never will be
How to hold two true things at once: they meant well, and it still hurt
Three things you can actually do this week when someone wounds you this way
Why you don't owe anyone a graceful response or an explanation
How to make peace with the fact that some people will never fully understand, and why that's okay
Read the full blog post here: 
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

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What if the most exhausted you've ever been isn't from the loss itself — but from mothering your living children while grieving the baby you didn't get to bring home?
If you've come home from the hospital to a house full of little ones who still need you — needing breakfast, needing rides to school, needing your lap — you already know this kind of tired. The kind sleep doesn't fix. The kind that makes you feel like a zombie reading bedtime stories with your mouth while your brain is somewhere else entirely.
In this episode, I'm taking you back to my kitchen — to my five-year-old in his Batman pajamas asking me a question I couldn't even hear. To the moment I realized I had nothing left. And to everything I want you to know if that's where you are right now.
What you'll learn:
Why the exhaustion of grieving while parenting is its own specific, lonely kind of tired — and why no one warns you about it
The "two jobs" you're doing every single day (and the second one is the one that's really eating you alive)
Why snapping at your kids doesn't make you a bad mom — and what it actually means about how much you love them
What your living children will really remember from this season (it's not what your guilt is telling you)
How to drop the bar for what counts as "being a good mom" right now — all the way to the floor
A simple practice for when the guilt starts spiraling after a hard moment with your kids
Why the baby you lost is already part of the way you mother every other child you have
The truth about whether you're "ruining" your kids by being sad (spoiler: you're not)
If guilt is the heaviest thing you're carrying right now, my free workshop Practical Ways to Release Guilt and Navigate Grief After Baby Loss was built for exactly this. You can register at navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop.
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/parenting-after-stillbirth-exhaustion-guilt
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website-  https://www.jennifersenn.com
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You are a mother. Full stop.
If you've ever hesitated when someone asks how many kids you have… if you've sat at a baby shower feeling like a fraud… if you've questioned whether you really get to claim the word "mother" - this episode is for you.
Your baby made you a mother. Loss didn't change that. Time doesn't change that. Silence from the people around you doesn't change that. And this is the episode to keep in your back pocket for the days when you need someone to remind you.
What you'll learn:
Why you became a mother the moment you saw that positive pregnancy test — and nothing has taken that away
How to answer those impossible doctor's office questions without it breaking you open every single time
What to do when a friend says "just wait until you're a mother…" and you feel the floor drop out
Why the guilt around claiming your motherhood is so common — and why you don't have to carry it
How to honor your motherhood on Mother's Day in small, real ways that feel like yours
Why saying your baby's name out loud is one of the most motherly things you can do
The truth about what motherhood actually is — and why it was never about logistics in the first place
Why you don't need anyone's permission to claim the mother you already are
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/still-a-mother-after-stillbirth-138
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website-  https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
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Are you already dreading Mother's Day? You are not alone — and you are not doing grief wrong.
If your chest gets tight just thinking about Mother's Day... if you're already noticing the ads, the brunch promos, the "best mom ever" posts, and your body is bracing weeks before the day even arrives — this episode is for you. That heaviness has a name. It's anticipatory grief. And it's so much more common than anyone tells you.
In this episode, I'm not going to try to fix Mother's Day or hand you a list of ways to "get through it." I'm just going to sit with you in the truth of it — share my own first Mother's Day after losing my twins, and give you permission to feel exactly what you're feeling.
What you'll hear in this episode:
Why the weeks leading up to Mother's Day often feel heavier than the day itself- and what anticipatory grief actually is
The story of my first Mother's Day after losing my twin daughters, and the conflicted feelings I never expected to have
Why you can feel like a mother and feel completely inadequate at the same time- and why both are valid
The guilt that creeps in when you don't want to celebrate a day that's "supposed to be beautiful"
What to do when your family wants brunch, your friends send cheerful texts, and your partner has no idea what you need
Why feeling alone in a room full of people who love you is one of the loneliest parts of this day
Permission to say the things you're already thinking - "I hate this day. I wish I could skip it. I don't feel like a mom."
How to start deciding what this day looks like for you- not for everyone else
Why planning ahead for hard days is a game changer (and not the same as "powering through")
Read the full blog post here: https://navigatingbabyloss.com/post/mothers-day-after-stillbirth-dread-137
If you want gentle, bite-sized support for moments exactly like this, the Stillbirth Roadmap Experience is open to you. Ten days of lessons delivered straight to your inbox, plus a personal call with me at the end. You can find it at navigatingbabyloss.com/roadmap.
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

WHERE TO FIND AND FOLLOW ME!
Website-  https://www.jennifersenn.com
Tik Tok-https://www.tiktok.com/@navigatingbabyloss
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Grief after stillbirth doesn't just live inside you — it can quietly settle between you and your partner, too. And if you've ever looked at him and wondered how he can just go to work and act like everything is normal... you're not alone.
In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Miranda Bayard Clark, a licensed therapist turned coach and founder of the Baby Ready Blueprint. Miranda helps couples prepare their relationship for the realities of parenthood — and today, she's getting real about what loss does to a relationship, why partners grieve so differently, and how resentment can build without either of you realizing it.
This conversation is for the mom who feels like she's carrying her grief alone — and the one who's wondering what it would even look like to feel like a team again.
In this episode, you'll hear:
Why partners almost always grieve differently after loss — and why that doesn't mean he doesn't care
How resentment quietly builds when needs go unspoken, and what to do when you notice it happening
Why trying again — whether naturally or through IVF — can bring up so much more than just hope
The one conversation Miranda says every couple should have before moving forward after a loss
What it actually means to ask for what you need, even when you're afraid of what he might say
Why men tend to jump into "fix it" mode — and the simple language shift that can change everything
What "score keeping" in your relationship really signals, and why it's worth paying attention to
How the stories we tell ourselves in silence can quietly become resentment over time
Miranda's Baby Ready Blueprint and her upcoming Us Before Baby course — and who they're really for
Miranda's Links:
www.loveafterlullabies.com
@mirandaforcouples
@loveafterlullabies
Read the full blog post here: LINK
https://navigatingbabyloss.com/workshop
Free workshop for moms grieving stillbirth or pregnancy loss. Learn simple, trauma-informed practices to release guilt, calm the what-ifs, and honor your baby's memory with love instead of pain. Includes bonus Grief & Guilt Release Journal.

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Download my FREE "Guilt and Grief Release Journal" at navigatingbabyloss.com/journal

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