Still a Mother: Jennifer Crouse on Full-Term Stillbirth, Grief, and Remembering Charlotte

About this episode

Jennifer Crouse shares her experience of losing her daughter Charlotte to full-term stillbirth and discusses the impact of grief on motherhood and identity.

In this deeply moving episode of Rediscovering YOU, Laura sits down with Jennifer Crouse to share the story of losing her daughter Charlotte to full-term stillbirth. Jennifer opens up about the shock and heartbreak of unimaginable loss, the realities of grief after stillbirth, and the ways motherhood, identity, relationships, and healing are forever changed after losing a child. Together, Laura and Jennifer explore what people often misunderstand about grief, how society struggles to hold space for bereaved mothers, and why conversations like this matter so deeply. This episode is raw, compassionate, and profoundly human, a conversation intended to help grieving mothers feel less alone while honoring Charlotte’s life and memory.

People in this episode

Host: Laura Flowers

Guest: Jennifer Crouse

Topics covered

• stillbirth
• grief
• motherhood
• identity
• healing
• bereavement

Keywords

• stillbirth
• grief
• motherhood
• loss
• healing
• bereaved mothers
• Charlotte

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