Pause to Remember: Providers Sharing Loss Stories
Pause to Remember is a podcast and community where healthcare providers share their grief journeys after pregnancy and infant loss. By normalizing difficult conversations, providers openly share their unique experiences and offer resources to preserve their careers, relationships, and well-being while honoring the memory of their baby.
Pause to Remember: Providers Sharing Loss Stories
29. Chelsey Herzig, CRNA - The impact of loss on her career and marriage
Chelsey Herzig, CRNA works in a critical access hospital in Minnesota. She talks about her daughter, Brynn, and the impact losing her has made in her life including her career and marriage.
Some of the things discussed include:
- Infertility treatment
- Process of diagnosing Brynn with a life limiting diagnosis (included a fetal MRI)
- Decision to terminate the pregnancy in a larger facility with more resources
- Anticipatory grieving
- Experience of labor induction at ~21 weeks
- Special urn made from a woman on Etsy (click here)
- Maternity leave before gradually re-entering the operating room
- Impact of infertility and loss on Chelsey's marriage
- Therapy
- Freezing eggs
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Pause to Remember Resources for Healthcare Providers Grieving After Pregnancy and Infant Loss
- Facebook Group, Virtual Support Group, Amy's Calendar to talk 1:1, eBook - A Guide After Pregnancy & Infant Loss, Refer a provider (therapist, counselor, psychiatrist, etc), Be a guest on the podcast, Contact Amy
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