I Had a Miscarriage & Normalize It: Award-Winning Dr. Jessica Zucker on Miscarriage, Reproductive Grief & Silence Around Pregnancy Loss

<p>What would change if we stopped whispering about miscarriage and started saying it out loud?</p><p><br></p><p>Everything. And Dr. Jessica Zucker has spent her entire career proving it.</p><p><br></p><p>In this extraordinary and deeply important episode of Cry It Out Loud, the podcast of Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit supporting families through infertility, pregnancy loss, stillbirth, infant loss, and pregnancy after loss, we sit down with one of the most important voices in the country on reproductive grief, maternal mental health, and the cultural silence surrounding pregnancy loss.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Jessica Zucker is a psychologist specializing in reproductive health, the author of two award winning books, I Had a Miscarriage and Normalize It, and has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, Vogue, and more. She has spent her career doing what the medical world and mainstream culture have consistently failed to do, taking miscarriage and pregnancy loss seriously as the profound, life altering grief that it is.</p><p><br></p><p>But here is what makes this conversation different from anything you have heard before.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Zucker is not speaking about this from the outside.</p><p><br></p><p>She has lived it herself.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode Dr. Zucker shares:</p><ul><li>Her own personal miscarriage story and what it felt like to experience a loss she had been clinically trained to help others through</li><li>The silence she encountered after her loss from medicine, from family, from society and why that silence is one of the most damaging things we do to grieving parents</li><li>What inspired her to write I Had a Miscarriage and what she wanted every reader to feel when they picked it up</li><li>What Normalize It is asking of individuals, medicine, and culture and why normalization is not the same as minimization</li><li>The patterns she sees every single day in the therapy room with women navigating reproductive grief</li><li>What grieving people actually need versus what they typically receive</li><li>How unprocessed reproductive grief shows up in women’s lives sometimes years after their loss</li><li>What partners, friends and family members can actually do to support someone after pregnancy loss</li><li>The single biggest thing we as a culture get wrong about miscarriage</li><li>What her own loss taught her that no degree or clinical training ever could</li></ul