22. Stillbirth of Elijah with Dr. Ann O'Neill
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
Release Date: 07/19/2019
43. Jessica Headey Gandolfi - Harmonyum Healing
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
I am thrilled to share Jessica Headey Gandolfi's energetic healing work called Harmonyum. Harmonyum heals anxiety, trauma and depression while creating calm, clarity, focus and joy. Harmonyum targets the entire neurological system, balancing both sides of the nervous system. By taking us into a deep and intense state of relaxation, activating the "rest and digest" zone, our bodies innate self-healing mechanism is stimulated, and dramatic, powerful healing can begin at a root level. Thereby, initiating the process of regeneration activating emotional, mental, and physical healing within the...
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42. Rhowena Adolfo Patel of Healing Mama Co.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
I'm excited to share this episode with Rhowena Adolfo Patel. She is the CEO and Founder of Healing Mama Co. which was born out of her experience as a first-time mom. She and Healing Mama Co. are on a movement to raise the standard of care for birthing people and partners during childbirth and postpartum. Check out www.healingmamaco.com for more information.
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41. Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force Executive Director, Kelly O'Connor Kay
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
Kelly discusses the important work of the Maternal Mental Health Now Task Force (previously known as the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force started in 2007). The Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force plays a key role in helping to reduce the stigma and shame around maternal mental health depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after pregnancy. Including postpartum psychosis.
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40. Sound Medicine with Elizabeth W. Krasnoff, Ph.D.(c), MIM
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
On Episode 40 I am welcoming back Elizabeth Krasnoff. I thought it would be helpful to many listeners to hear Elizabeth and I discuss how incorporating sound, sound frequencies and music can soothe our bodies, our minds, our spirits/souls, and our emotions during these unprecedented times of COVID interrupting our daily lives and daily routines. This is such an important topic for myriad reasons.
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39. The Placenta and What It Tells Us with Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 39 of Shattered Conception is Dr. Harvey Kliman who has, in addition to an M.D., holds a Ph.D. in cellular biochemistry from the University of Chicago. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Reproductive and Placental Research Unit with a special interest in infertility, pregnancy complications, pregnancy loss(es) and stillbirth.
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38. Men's Paternal Mental Health with Dr.Dan B. Singley
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 38 is Dr. Daniel B. Singley. Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood.
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37. Heart Disease and Pregnancy with Amanda Daniels
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 37 of Shattered Conception is Amanda Daniels. Amanda is a heart disease survivor, mother of three daughters and a spiritual counselor. At 18-years-old she suffered her first Heartquake™ - a term she uses to describe that moment in time when your life is forever changed - when she joined the ranks of the millions worldwide living with heart disease, and heart failure at 25.
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36. Babies Are Cosmic Author Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D. In 1989, Elizabeth began exploring life before birth and interviewed mothers reporting communications with their unborn children via dreams, visions, an inner voice, feeling the child’s presence, telepathy, and a host of other announcing signs. Thousands of children also reported memories of their journey from the spiritual world to conception, life in the womb, and birth itself. These stories will draw you into a new world of wonder about consciousness before birth.
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35. Spiritual Fertility with Dr. Julie Von
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Dr. Julie Von. Dr. Von is a Manhattan-based holistic doctor specializing in fertility who merges her medical education with intuitive-based practices. The method she developed, called Spiritual Fertility (which is also the name of her book), expresses her unique capacity and experience within both reproductive medicine and medical intuition. Dr. Julie’s work has been called evocative, eloquent, mystical, and practical. Manhattan Magazine called Julie the “baby whisperer".
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34. Pregnancy After Loss with Lindsey Henke
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Lindsey Henke. Lindsey is the founder and Executive Director of Pregnancy After Loss Support. This is also a website and important resource for women and their families who go on to conceive another pregnancy after losing a pregnancy, their baby is stillborn and/or their infant dies after birth. She is a clinical social worker specializing as a reproductive mental health therapist with a focus on the grief and trauma that happens after a perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows.
info_outlineMy guest is Dr. Ann O’Neill. Ann completed her Master’s degree in Environmental Science in 2006, and her PhD in Natural Resource Science & Management in 2015. Excitedly anticipating the arrival of their 4th son in July of 2018 and were shocked to learn Elijah, no longer had a heartbeat at 39 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. Elijah was stillborn on his due date, July 2nd, 2018. They returned home from the hospital in desperate tears, bewildered, arms aching, and with a million questions.
Three months after Elijah’s stillbirth, the autopsy report concluded that the cause of Elijah’s death was “unknown”. Unhappy with the insufficient answers to basic questions provided by the autopsy, Ann listened to a podcast interview of Dr. Harvey Kliman, a placental pathologist at Yale University. On this episode, Ann discusses learning that Elijah’s death was due to an extremely small placenta that could not provide the oxygen he needed to survive past week 39 of pregnancy. While Ann’s original plan was to continue teaching environmental science classes to undergraduate students, Elijah’s death was a watershed moment in her life. Elijah's death opened Ann’s eyes to the many unacceptable gaps in the world of prenatal care, stillbirth research, and basic answers for families asking why their baby died. Today, Ann is passionate about encouraging prenatal care providers to measure a baby’s placenta volume in utero to detect babies at high risk of stillbirth, and to help loss families pursue and hopefully find answers to the cause of their baby’s death.
Ann can be reached by email: [email protected]
To learn more about Estimated Placental Volume (EPV) to measure placenta volumes during pregnancy: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/epv/
To learn about having your baby’s placenta tissue reviewed by Dr. Harvey Kliman to investigate why your baby was miscarried or stillborn: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/pregnancyloss/
Star Legacy Foundation is in Minnesota and are dedicated to stillbirth research.