Making Grief Visible: Stillbirth, Motherhood & the Love Carried with Breann Snyder

Content note: This episode includes conversations about stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and grief. Please listen with care.There are some experiences we don't talk about enough, and birth loss is one of them.In this deeply personal episode, I sit down with Breann Snyder, a former birth doula and mom of three living children and her daughter Flossie, who was born still.Breann shares what began as an uncertain pregnancy and became a month-long hospital stay after her water opened at 28 weeks. We talk about navigating anxiety, advocating for your choices, and that powerful sense of body knowing that can exist even before the mind understands what's happening.At 32 weeks, everything changed.Breann takes us through the birth of Flossie and the grief that followed, from saying goodbye to returning home and learning how to mother, recover, and live alongside a loss that doesn't simply disappear.We also talk about something I think we need to make more space for: grief doesn't need to be fixed. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is allow someone to feel it, carry it, and integrate it into their life in their own time.This is a tender conversation about birth, loss, intuition, motherhood, and the experiences too many women are left to carry quietly.04:48 Worry as the work of pregnancy and navigating anxiety10:20 Breann's water opens at 28 weeks23:55 Reaching 32 weeks and the moment everything changes30:07 Learning Flossie's condition was incompatible with life46:17 Meeting Flossy and creating precious moments together58:00 Why Breann didn't want anyone to “fix” her griefListen now wherever you get your podcasts.Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: https://speakpipe.com/postpartumloveWe are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at https://www.postpartum.love/podcast.If you enjoyed this episode and found value in it, we would be incredibly grateful if you could take a moment to leave us a review. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Know someone that could benefit from this podcast or episode? Sharing is caring AND it also help others discover our show. 🫶