64 {Kim Grundy} Losing a child at 23 weeks pregnant

Trigger Warning: neo natal death and miscarriage

While we have previously touched on difficult pregnancies, today’s episode follows one incredibly strong woman’s journey through the trauma of neo natal death.

Kim Grundy is an incredible woman, wife and mother to two boys, but before she had her two children she lost her baby girl Chloe at 23 weeks of pregnancy.

In this episode Kim shares:

- When she started to think things were wrong but the doctors said it was fine

- The process of being hospitalised when her pregnancy started to go wrong

- How confusing and unclear the process of finding out what was happening was

- The traumatic moments after having to give birth to her daughter

- What happened to her after the neo natal death of her daughter

- The scary process of falling pregnant a second time

- How her second pregnancy almost ended in a similar way

- The lessons she has learnt

Key Quotes

“I could see her face and I knew it wasn’t ok.”

“I remember for months I would just feel numb.”

“You don’t know how much strength you have until you have to engage it.”

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