Miscarriage Stories with Arden Cartrette
by Arden Cartrette
A space for women to share their stories about loss, grief, and life after. Hosted by Arden Cartrette, founder of The Miscarriage Doula, a service for anyone who is going through loss, struggling with pregnancy after loss, or is looking for more information on how to get through miscarriage in general. On this podcast we'll hear from experts and advocates in the online community along with people who are going through loss in real time.
Episodes
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117. 2 Miscarriages Followed by Living Child, Then Further Loss w/ Natalie
Natalie joins the show to share her story of recurrent pregnancy loss and chose to share now, even though she’s still in the thick of growing her family. She said there is power in trying before you’re on the “other side of loss” and we agree at the Miscarriage Stories Podcast! TOPICS DISCUSSED:...
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116. "I'm Sorry For My Loss" with Rebecca Little and Colleen Long
This conversation delves into the complexities of reproductive health, particularly focusing on pregnancy loss and abortion. Rebecca Little and Colleen Long join Arden to discuss the impact of the overturning of Roe v. Wade on women's health, share personal stories of loss, and highlight the...
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115. NORMALIZE IT w/ Jessica Zucker
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Arden Cartrette is joined by psychologist and award-winning author Jessica Zucker to discuss her new book, Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women’s Lives. Known for her groundbreaking work and viral movement I Had a...
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114. Ongoing Miscarriage with a Slow Heartbeat w/ Carly
🎙 Hosted by Arden Cartrette | The Miscarriage Doula In this episode of Miscarriage Stories, Carly shares her deeply personal journey of trying to conceive, navigating the emotional highs of early pregnancy, and facing the heartbreaking reality of miscarriage. 💔 A Thoughtful Start – Carly and…
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113. Xenia Returns to Share Pregnancy After Loss, Pregnancy Complications and Life Now [Update Ep from #83]
Returning after sharing her recurrent pregnancy loss journey with us in episode 83, Xenia shares pregnancy after loss and the emotional and physical complications of that pregnancy. The Miscarriage Doula is an online service and resource for people who are navigating pregnancy loss. Learn more at...
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112. “Chemical” Pregnancy, Two Living Children, Followed by a Second Trimester Birth & Loss w/ Andrea
In this episode, Andrea details her fertility experiences with pregnancy loss, living children, and the loss of her son during the second trimester that was unexpected and traumatic. Thank you, Andrea for talking about second trimester loss so openly and for discussing saline baths! Some helpful...
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111. Traumatic Miscarriage 24 Hours After Positive Pregnancy Test + Pregnancy After Loss w/ Natori
Natori join Arden on the Miscarriage Stories Podcast to discuss her pregnancy experience and how traumatic miscarriage can be no matter how "early" in pregnancy you are. We discuss a difficult encounter with medical staff, things that have helped her cope and grieve, taking time off work after...
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110. Pregnancy Loss and Physical Induction at 14 Weeks (and Pregnancy AFTER Loss) w/ Denise
During this episode of Miscarriage Stories, Denise shares her personal experience with losing her son after passing 12 weeks, which is when she felt safe enough to share the news with family and friends. This conversation is heavy on discussing what birth looks like in loss and is a vulnerable...
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109. A Year of TTC, Miscarriage at 12 Weeks, and Grief After Loss w/ Meaghan
Meaghan joins Arden today to share her experience with pregnancy and loss. River is a child that was wanted and loved from the moment they existed which made their loss all the more devastating for Meaghan and her husband, Tom. We discuss her experience giving birth at home and the trauma that it...
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108. Anovulatory Cycles, Infertility, Recurrent Miscarriages, and IVF w/ Lauren B.
“My eggs are rotten so we just need better ingredients for the bun” Lauren comes on to share about her journey with infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss and navigating IVF, fertility testing and treatment. "Fertility really is like a crap shoot Losing pregnancies, embryos, cycles, feels like...
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107. Sam Returns to Discuss Further Loss, Testing, Immunotherapy, IVF, and Pregnancy After Loss [UPDATE EPISODE from #39]
On this episode of Miscarriage Stories we hear from Sam who joined us for episode 39 to share her experience with miscarriage. Now she's back to share more about recurrent pregnancy loss, lots and lots of testing, traveling to Mexico for Immunotherapy (and getting stuck at the border), plus IVF,...
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106. Miscarried Hope: Journeying with Jesus through Pregnancy and Infant Loss w/ Rachel Lohman
Rachel from the Hope Again Collective joins Arden to talk about her experience with pregnancy loss and what life after loss looks like for a pastor. She also wrote a book titled Miscarried Hope: Journeying with Jesus through Pregnancy and Infant Loss which is available now!...
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105. Blended Families and Secondary Loss w/ Arizona
Arizona joins Arden to discuss her experience with a miscarriage during her third pregnancy. "Angel" was born in the first trimester and with having two living sons and two step-daughters, going through a miscarriage was difficult to say the least. Hear her story on Miscarriage Stories Podcast....
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104. Pregnancy Loss Before Transition as a Transgender Male w/ Alex
*SENSITIVE NOTE* This episode contains really difficult details and conversations surrounding sexual abuse and the transgender community. If you have the space to listen to Alex's story, please do. You can also save it for another day or time, whenever you're ready. Alex (he/him) joins Arden…
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103. "Still" -- A Short Film About Pregnancy Loss w/ Rakefet Abergel
Female filmmaker, Rakefet Abergel, who was personally traumatized by pregnancy loss, released a trailer and accompanying music video of an original song from her short film “Still” in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month. “Still” is a moving psychological thriller short film, now...
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102. 13 Q Deletion Syndrome, TFMR, and Pregnancy After Loss w/ Rebecca
Rebecca and her husband are newly married as of July 2022 and didn’t plan to have children right away due to being in grad school. Her mind changed suddenly and they started trying to conceive. In December 2022 she learned that she was pregnant with her daughter, Hadley. Throughout the first...
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101. An Unexpected Loss of Mono-Mono Twins, a Chemical Pregnancy, and Pregnancy After Loss w/ Madison
Madison joins Arden to discuss her journey with recurrent pregnancy loss including the unexpected loss of twins (mono-mono) and how she's navigated grief especially as she is pregnant again after loss. Discussed in this episode: High-risk twin pregnancy and loss Chemical pregnancies Anxiety in...
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100. "A Diary To My Babies" w/ Carmen
Carmen joins Arden to discuss her experience with 11 pregnancies, many of which sadly ended in loss. She experienced "chemical" pregnancies, missed miscarriages, early losses, and termination for medical reasons along with having living children between her losses. Carmen wrote a book that was...
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99. Living Son, Missed Miscarriage, and a Molar Pregnancy w/ Brooke
On this episode of Miscarriage Stories, we hear from Brooke who experienced two losses AFTER having her three-year-old son. Loss after living children always comes as a shock because you expect the same outcome from the first pregnancy but when her second pregnancy was a blighted ovum (missed...
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98. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, TFMR, and IVF w/ Linsey
Linsey shares her heartbreaking story through recurrent pregnancy loss including missed miscarriage and termination for medical reasons. She's been on a journey through IVF and bravely shares the reality of life after loss and IVF after loss. The Miscarriage Doula is an online service and…
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97. Six Miscarriages in Sweden w/ Linn
Linn joins Arden all the way from Sweden to share the devastating journey she's had through recurrent pregnancy loss. She shares how navigating the medical system has been difficult and how she's coped with six miscarriages. The Miscarriage Doula is an online service and resource for those…
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96. Miscarriage At Home Before 13th Week Ultrasound w/ Alex
Alex shares her heartbreaking experience of miscarriage at home right before an ultrasound at 13 weeks. She shares the things that she wishes doctors would mention to women who were experiencing pregnancy loss and what loss has looked like for her. The Miscarriage Doula is an online service and...
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95. Being A Nurse + Having A First Trimester Miscarriage w/ Allissa
Allissa joins the podcast to share her journey through a first trimester loss years after she had an elective abortion during an abusive relationship. She shares what grief has looked like for her as she's navigated life after loss and being a nurse. The Miscarriage Doula is an online service and...
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94. Experiencing Birth Trauma + Recurrent Pregnancy Loss w/ Katie
Katie, an end-of-life doula in the UK joins the podcast to share her experience with two first trimester miscarriages. She shares her experience having two miscarriages at home after having birth trauma from her first living child and how complicated life after trauma can be but how healing looks...
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93. Second Trimester Loss From PPROM w/ Stephanie
Stephanie, who is one of the incredible doulas on Arden's team at The Miscarriage Doula comes on the show to share her journey through pregnancy loss in the second trimester. After her water broke at 19 weeks, she details her terrible experience giving birth and grieving her daughter. Arden and...
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92. Mental Health, Pregnancy Loss + Finding Inspiration in Grief w/ Kirsten
Kirsten joins Arden to share her story with pregnancy loss, PCOS, struggling to conceive after loss, and a struggle with her mental health as she grieved. SHOP KIRSTEN'S BOOKS: Rearranged I Love You From Heaven Visit Kirsten's website: https://kirstenhopfensperger.com/ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN…
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91. The Importance of Being Self-ish w/ Sunita
Sunita Osborn, author of The Miscarriage Map, joins Arden to share her personal journey with recurrent pregnancy loss, grief, and pregnancy after loss. She shares how she wrote two books over the course of the last few years and the inspiration for them being her miscarriages. Her new book,...
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90. A 12-Week Loss At Home, Cytotec, and a “Happy” Ending w/ Natalie
Natalie shares her journey of the loss of her baby at 12 weeks pregnant, giving birth at home, and coping with the grief and fear of what her future would hold. She does share that she went on to get pregnant again and welcomed her living daughter! WORK WITH ARDEN + HER TEAM: Book a 1:1 call...
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89. Blocked Fallopian Tubes, IVF, Recurrent Losses, and Embryo Donation w/ Jessi
Jessi opens up about her fertility journey and shares about an abortion that she had as a teenager, recurrent pregnancy loss years later, to needing IVF to get pregnant with her son. After her son was born and she felt ready to try for a sibling, she and her partner adopted five embryos and are...
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88. A Male Perspective of Pregnancy Loss w/ Kelly Jean-Philippe
Kelly Jean-Philippe, the host and founder of Welcome To Fatherhood, a podcast and resource for men in the fatherhood space. He walks us through his experience with recurrent pregnancy loss and pregnancy after loss alongside his partner and the differences they faced as they grieved multiple...
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87. Genetic Diagnosis, IVF Journey, and Loss of a Twin Pregnancy w/ Nicky
Nicky and her husband started trying to conceive shortly after getting married but she never got a period after coming off birth control. After seeing a fertility specialized five months after coming off birth control, her doctor did genetic tested she learned they carried a genetic disorder that...
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86. Recurrent Loss After A “Carefree” First Pregnancy w/ Xenia
Xenia joins us from England to share her story of recurrent secondary loss. Following the pregnancy and birth of her first child, she and her partner started struggling with recurrent pregnancy loss and are still in the thick of their journey. TAGS: SECONDARY LOSS, SECONDARY MISCARRIAGE…
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85. Trying to Conceive for 3 Years + 4 Losses w/ Caroline
REGISTER FOR OUR FREE MOTHER'S DAY EVENT: themiscarriagedoula.co/mothers-day-event Caroline is on the Miscarriage Stories Podcast today to share her journey through trying to grow her family, infertility, and recurrent pregnancy loss. She is open about how she copes with grief, naming her babies,...
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84. Secondary Recurrent Pregnancy Loss w/ Shelly
REGISTER FOR OUR FREE MOTHER'S DAY EVENT: themiscarriagedoula.co/mothers-day-event Shelly shares her pregnancy and loss journey starting with a complicated pregnancy with twins who spent more than two weeks in the NICU plus she had a D&C before ever experiencing a miscarriage. Then she shares her...
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83. Recurrent/Secondary Loss and Postpartum Depression w/ Samantha
REGISTER FOR OUR FREE MOTHER'S DAY EVENT: themiscarriagedoula.co/mothers-day-event Samantha shares her journey through recurrent pregnancy loss and secondary losses. She has two living children and three miscarriages between her children and has been open about her struggle with postpartum…
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82. Three Miscarriages in a Year w/ Amber
REGISTER FOR OUR FREE MOTHER'S DAY EVENT: themiscarriagedoula.co/mothers-day-event Amber shares her experience with recurrent pregnancy loss including an honest conversation about her missed miscarriage at 8 weeks. She bravely details her birth at home and what it was really like to have a...
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81. Three Miscarriage and A Stillbirth / Morgan's Story
REGISTER FOR OUR FREE MOTHER'S DAY EVENT: themiscarriagedoula.co/mothers-day-event Morgan openly shares her journey through recurrent pregnancy loss and the recent loss of her son Tatum at 20 weeks. Her due date with Tatum is February 28th so in honor of that day, we are sharing her story on the...
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80. Conjoined Twins, Vanishing Triplet, and Pregnant at 20 w/ Ava
20 year old Ava shares her experience of an unexpected pregnancy where she learned that there were three gestational sacs which resulted in one vanishing pregnancy and conjoined twins. TAGS: SPOTTING IN PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED PREGNANCY, TWIN PREGNANCY LOSS, TRIPLET PREGNANCY LOSS, PREGNANCY LOSS,...
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79. Infertility, Secondary Loss, and Fertility Treatment w/ Nicole
Nicole's journey starts with an infertility journey that led her to multiple rounds of fertility treatment. She conceived her living child (a daughter) with the help of fertility treatment and then started trying to conceive for a second child when her daughter was 10 months old. During the round...
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GOODBYE 2022 - SHARE YOUR STORY IN 2023
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78. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (First & Second Trimesters) w/ Raquel
Coming from Spain in 2012, Raquel moved to the USA and met her now husband. After two years of marriage they started trying to conceive and were surprised when they quickly saw a positive pregnancy test but were devastated when they experienced multiple miscarriages and fertility issues. Listen…
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77. Recurrent Secondary Loss & Single Mom By Choice
Today Arden reads Krista and Michelle's email where they sent in their experience with pregnancy loss. Krista experiences secondary loss and a second trimester loss while Michelle experiences two back-to-back miscarriages on her SMBC (single mom by choice) journey. BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST SEND…
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76. Three Miscarriages, Fertility Struggles, and Pregnancy After Loss w/ Sarah
GRIEVING THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS WEBINAR: https://best-hill-471.myflodesk.com Before welcoming her living son, Avery, into the world -- Sarah experienced three consecutive miscarriages. Sarah and Arden met through Instagram, and for the last three years, they have virtually supported each other...
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75. An Unexpected Pregnancy and Missed Miscarriage w/ Olivia
Olivia shares her experience with pregnancy loss and describes the pain of experiencing the loss of a baby she didn't know she wanted. Then, in an open conversation about not knowing if she wanted kids, getting pregnant unexpectedly, and getting excited about the pregnancy only to experience a...
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74. Traumatic First Pregnancy Experience (Live Birth) Followed by 2 Miscarriages w/ Emma
Emma shares her experience with her first pregnancy that ended with her living son who was born at 34 weeks gestation after many complications and an emergency c-section. When she wanted to expand her family and have another living child, she experienced two miscarriages and details them for the...
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INTRODUCING.... Miscarriage Stories with Arden Cartrette
We're changing our name but not the show! Miscarriage Stories is a place for YOU to share your story. Are you interested in having a conversation with Arden that's recorded for the show? CLICK HERE to view availability for recordings. You may write in and share your story via email. Arden will…
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73. An Unexpected Pregnancy and Missed Miscarriage w/ Olivia
Olivia shares her experience with getting pregnant unexpectedly and thinking that she didn't want children prior to being pregnant. Then she experiences a missed miscarriage and while she knew it was possible, she felt crushed by the experience. Listen to this vulnerable and raw take on pregnancy...
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72. Mental Push Plan & Lauren's Story (w/ Carolyn and Lauren)
Lauren from the Mental Push Plan shares her personal experience with miscarriage and the meaning behind her company with her friend Carolyn which supports women in their pregnancy journey along with grief journey following pregnancy loss. Mental Push Plan is mental tools to empower you through...
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71. Turner's Syndrome and TFMR at 16 Weeks w/ Alexis
Alexis shares her story of pregnancy loss with her daughter, Aubreigh, who was diagnosed with Turner's Syndrome, High Drops, and a heart defect. Following these diagnoses, she had to make the most compassionate and difficult decision that a mother has to make. Alexis' story includes mention of...
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70. Miscarriage After Two Living Children w/ Heidi
Heidi joins Arden to share her miscarriage experience on today's episode of The Miscarriage Doula Podcast. Following two living children ages 4 and 2 years old, Heidi and her husband decided to grow their family further and have a third child. When they went in to the first ultrasound and learned...
About this show
A space for women to share their stories about loss, grief, and life after. Hosted by Arden Cartrette, founder of The Miscarriage Doula, a service for anyone who is going through loss, struggling with pregnancy after loss, or is looking for more information on how to get through miscarriage in general. On this podcast we'll hear from experts and advocates in the online community along with people who are going through loss in real time.
Hosted by
Arden Cartrette