E132: Four losses and Two moments that could have killed her — Guest Jayme Serbell

About this episode

Jayme Serbell shares her profound experiences with maternal mental health and the complexities of grief following multiple pregnancy losses.

What does maternal mental health actually look like for bereaved mothers? Not the Instagram version. The real one — with rage, and fear, and loving a child you can barely look at, while grieving another you'll never hold. Today I'm joined by Jayme Serbell, a writer and memoirist whose journey to parenthood spans 6 pregnancies, multiple losses including 3 early miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy that cost her a fallopian tube, a devastating twin pregnancy where she was faced with an impossible medical decision, a postpartum haemorrhage that nearly took her life, and a postpartum rage diagnosis that finally put language to something she'd been carrying alone. Jayme speaks with extraordinary honesty about the cumulative weight of loss — how grief compounds, how trauma travels into every pregnancy, every birth, every ordinary moment with a child you fought so hard to hold. And how, even after all of it, the healing happens — slowly, on its own timeline. In this episode we explore: How Jayme's second pregnancy connected the dots on an unrecognised first loss — and the disorientation of grieving both at once The way trying to conceive after recurrent loss stripped the…

People in this episode

Host: Sharna Southan

Guest: Jayme Serbell

Topics covered

• maternal mental health
• bereavement
• grief
• postpartum experiences
• pregnancy loss
• trauma

Keywords

• maternal mental health
• pregnancy loss
• grief
• postpartum haemorrhage
• trauma
• bereaved mothers
• miscarriage
• twin pregnancy

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