EP140: Six Losses, one foundation: Guest Catherine MacLennan on building the support she never dad

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Now into the show.

Catherine MacLennan has been through six pregnancy losses — three of them in the second trimester, all of them traumatic.

When she went looking for support, she found almost none.

So she built it herself: first the Pinks and Blues, a peer support community, and later the Vilomah Foundation, a UK charity offering free, ongoing support to anyone navigating pregnancy loss or pregnancy after loss.

In this conversation, we talk about what rarely gets named out loud: the trauma that doesn't get validated, the identity that has to be rebuilt from scratch, the partners grieving in silence because they didn't "physically" go through it, and the grandparents mourning a grandchild they never met.