392 - Double Uterus and Double Cervix and Hope Still Stands with La-Anna Douglass
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Release Date: 06/18/2025
399 - Fibroids, Myomectomy, and Infant Loss with Oligohydramnios with Christina Danyo
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Have you heard of the term Oligohydramnios? Low amniotic fluid (oligohydramnios) is a condition in which the amniotic fluid measures lower than expected for a baby’s gestational age. Today’s guest was preparing to conceive and had a myomectomy to remove her fibroids. Christina Danyo learned she was expecting after her fibroid surgery. During her 20 week anatomy scan she learned that her baby girl’s kidneys did not develop and was covered in cysts. Her daughter was diagnosed with Oligohdramnios or low/no amniotic fluid and her lungs also did not develop. ...
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398 - 2nd Trimester Loss at 19 Weeks and Wonderpuff with Jackie Morin
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Today’s guest knows what it feels to be down and depressed after trauma. This lead her to making cotton candy and learned to detach herself from other people’s pain, but also carry their spirits with me to rediscover joy by bringing it to others. Jackie Morin is the founder of Wonderpuff a small cotton candy business based in Durham, North Carolina. She and her husband began to expand their family and lost her daughter at 19 weeks. In this episode, we discuss how being black and Muslim played a role in her birthing experience, how she coped with the trauma of losing...
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397 - Ectopic Pregnancy, 8 Pregnancy Losses, and Hope to become a Mother of Living Child with Deze
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Today’s guest is a lifestyle blogger behind byDeze.com. Deze began her journey to motherhood after getting married and lost that pregnancy to miscarriage. The next pregnancy she had an ectopic pregnancy and in total experienced another 6 losses totaling of 8 pregnancy losses with no live births. She was diagnosed with endometriosis, endured the removal of her right fallopian tube, as well as the mental and emotional toll that fertility brings. In today’s episode Deze takes use on her journey through fertility, endometriosis, and pregnancy loss, and how she has found...
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396 - Losing a Baby at 37 weeks with LaQuasha Jarvis
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Can you imagine going through an entire pregnancy and losing your baby so close to birth? Today’s guest experienced that and more. LaQuasha Jarvis had her first baby at 20 and 5 months later was pregnant with her second child. At 37 weeks the unthinkable happened when she lost her baby so close to delivery. In this episode LaQuasha shares how she fights daily through her loss, how she went on to have 3 more rainbow babies, and how she is turning her pain into purpose by becoming a Doula. This episode is for you to listen to if you have experienced loss in the third trimester and...
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395 - Miscarriage and Adventures of Grief Girl with D. Anaya
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Today’s guest has been on a journey of grief. She experienced the loss of her first pregnancy with a miscarriage, the death of her eldest daughter, and in her final pregnancy another miscarriage. D. Anaya shares in this episode how she has been on this journey of grief and tells her adventures exploring her grief as an artist, grief guide, and loss doula through adventures of grief girl. This episode is for you to listen to if you have experience a miscarriage and child loss. Become a Book Recommendations and Links Below You can shop my for the Book...
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394 - IVF, PCOS, and Blocked Fallopian Tubes with Tanerra Willis
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Have experienced any shame, guilt, or self blame after loss? Today’s guest has experienced it and more. Tanerra Willis is a certified RN and CPR instructor by trade and was diagnosed with PCOS and had blocked fallopian tubes. She ended up seeing a fertility specialist who recommended she undergo IVF to grow her family. Tanerra was able to have her baby via IVF. She experienced guilt, embarrassment, self blame and isolation on her journey. In this episode she takes us back on her journey to motherhood and encourages others to share their experiences. This episode is...
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393 - Surrogacy and Infertility and The Colorless Womb with Kimberly Gowdy
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
After a long journey with infertility, today’s guest shares her early struggles to conceive and carry a child to term, her journey in search of alternative ways to have a family, and racial and societal pressures of parenthood and love. Kimberly Gowdy experienced the loss of multiple pregnancies, and was in an unstable marriage peppered with spousal abuse and addiction. In today’s episode she takes us back on her journey to motherhood that was filled with loss, tears, doubt, heartache, and ultimate joy of remarriage and her rainbow son. This episode is for you...
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392 - Double Uterus and Double Cervix and Hope Still Stands with La-Anna Douglass
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Have you heard of having a double uterus or double cervix? The term is Uterine didelphys is a rare condition that happens when you grow two uteruses instead of one. This happens when you are a developing baby. You are born with it. While developing as babies, girls typically grow a uterus from two channels called the Mullerian ducts. Today’s guest was born with a didelphys uterus after 3 laparoscopic surgeries it was confirmed she also had endometriosis, fibroids, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. That did not stop today’s guest from trying to conceive. La-Anna...
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391 - Ectopic Pregnancy, Fallopian Tube Rupture, and “Why did this happen to me”? with Ashlee Epps
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Have you heard of an Ectopic Pregnancy? An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus. An ectopic pregnancy most often occurs in a fallopian tube, which carries eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. This type of ectopic pregnancy is called a tubal pregnancy. Today’s guest experienced an ectopic pregnancy that was discovered during her first prenatal visit and would need surgery. The morning of her surgery date her fallopian tube ruptured causing internal bleeding and changed her. Ashlee Epps found out she was pregnant...
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390 - Endometriosis, Infertility, and Congenital Heart Disease and Infant Loss with Jamala Arland
Sisters in Loss: Miscarriage, Infant Loss, and Infertility Stories
Congenital heart disease is a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal way the heart works. The term “congenital” means the condition is present from birth. Today’s guest was diagnosed with Endometriosis and after many years of fertility treatments including IVF her first child Jasper died in her arms 30 hours after he was born from congenital heart disease. Coping with the grief of child loss at the onset of a global pandemic has made, Jamala Arland passionate about supporting the community for bereaved mothers and normalizing grief through...
info_outlineHave you heard of having a double uterus or double cervix? The term is Uterine didelphys is a rare condition that happens when you grow two uteruses instead of one. This happens when you are a developing baby. You are born with it. While developing as babies, girls typically grow a uterus from two channels called the Mullerian ducts.
Today’s guest was born with a didelphys uterus after 3 laparoscopic surgeries it was confirmed she also had endometriosis, fibroids, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. That did not stop today’s guest from trying to conceive. La-Anna Douglass began fertility treatments with drugs and still was unable to conceive. She decided to try IVF and IVF did not work for her leaving her depressed and heartbroken. In today’s episode La-Anna shares her journey to conceiving a baby naturally after 8 years of trying to conceive and her current journey through secondary infertility.
This podcast is for you to listen to to learn more about a double uterus and double cervix, but also if you have any underlying conditions like endometriosis, fibriods, and pcos.
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