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Episode 2: Loss, Love & Motherhood

This episode is one of the most personal I've ever recorded.
We're talking about pregnancy, loss, motherhood, birth, and all the messy emotions that come with becoming a parent.

I share the story of my first pregnancy at 20, the experience that shaped the way I viewed my body, choice, and motherhood for years to come. We talk about grief, healing, and how some experiences can stay with you long after they're over.
I also take you back to the moment I found out I was pregnant with Penelope just eight months into my relationship with Jack, how we told our families, and why his reaction told me everything I needed to know about the kind of father he would become.

Then we're getting real about pregnancy. The nausea, the isolation, the vomiting, the fear, the parts no one seems to post about online, and why surviving pregnancy is sometimes more than enough. I share the birth story of Penelope, from induction to holding her in my arms for the first time, and the overwhelming emotions that followed. And finally, we talk about baby number two.

The heartbreak of thinking I was pregnant and finding out I wasn't, falling pregnant with Paxton, navigating Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), the physical and mental challenges of a second pregnancy, and the birth that completed our family.
This episode is for anyone who has experienced pregnancy, loss, motherhood, fertility struggles, birth trauma, overwhelming love, or simply wondered if they're the only one finding it all a little harder than Instagram makes it look.
Because motherhood is beautiful.

But it's also messy, exhausting, emotional, complicated, and life-changing.
And I think we should talk about all of it.
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Topics discussed:
• Pregnancy loss & abortion
• Falling pregnant with Penelope
• Pregnancy anxiety & isolation
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)
• The birth of Penelope
• Paxton's pregnancy & birth story
• Motherhood & identity
• Relationships during pregnancy
• Lessons learned through loss, love & parenthood

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Because life can bite hard sometimes... but you don't have to go through it alone.