Episode 5: Stitched with Your Color

Guest: Anissa Scholes

In this episode:

Anissa discusses her pregnancy with Elisabeth and finding out she has Trisomy 18
What is Trisomy 18, and what are the typical symptoms?
What was it like at home for a baby with Trisomy 18?
How grief is a singular experience
Why it’s important to believe the griever
Grieving a child when you have other children at home

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Elisabeth Maxine Facebook Page
Texas Children’s Hospital
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
SOFT
Beyond Closure Tedx Talk
On Loss and Living Onward: Collected Voices or the Grieving and Those Who Would Mourn with Them
Lament for a Son
Separation by W.S. Merwin

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