Cry It Out Loud: Navigating Infertility, Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Infant Loss & Pregnancy After Loss

What does grief look like when your life is lived online and everyone thinks they know your story?In this episode of Cry It Out Loud, the podcast of Chasing the Rainbows, we sit down with Haley Collins, the lifestyle and skincare creator behind Unashamed, to talk about the part of her story that never made it into the caption. Haley opens up about life before loss, the emotional and mental toll of baby loss, and what life looks like now as a mom.In this episode we cover:Life before loss and who she was before everything changedThe emotional and mental health reality of griefShowing up online while falling apart privatelyWhat the people closest to her did right and what she wishes they had done differentlyRainbow baby motherhood and carrying grief and joy at the same timeWhat she wants her community and every grieving mother to knowThis episode is for every woman who has smiled through a loss nobody knew she was carrying, and for everyone who loves her.Cry It Out Loud is the podcast of Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit providing free daily support for infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and pregnancy after loss.Every loss matters. Every mother matters.chasingtherainbows.org

What does infertility actually feel like from the inside...not the announcement post, not the happy ending, but the real, daily, grinding reality of wanting something with your whole heart and having the road there nearly break you?Zo knows that journey better than most.In this raw, honest and deeply empowering episode of Cry It Out Loud, we sit down with Zo, creator of the viral infertility community IVF, Infertility and Mom Life @Zo.Fertility, who navigated failed IUIs, failed embryo retrievals, four miscarriages, and IVF as a geriatric infertility patient at thirty five plus, before finding her way to motherhood through her daughter Ruby.With over fifteen thousand followers built entirely on real talk and radical honesty about all roads to parenthood, Zo has become one of the most trusted voices in the infertility and pregnancy loss community, because she never stopped telling the truth even when the truth was devastating.In this episode Zo shares:What life looked like before infertility entered the pictureThe emotional and physical reality of failed IUIs and failed embryo retrievalsWhat four miscarriages does to your grief, your identity and your hopeNavigating IVF as a geriatric infertility patient at thirty five plusWhy she decided to share her journey publicly on social media in real timeBuilding a community of fifteen thousand people through radical honestyAdoption, all roads to parenthood and becoming Ruby’s momWhat life looks like today and what she wants every woman still in the middle of this to knowThis episode is for every woman who has stared at a negative test and wondered how much longer she can keep going. For every couple sitting in a waiting room pretending to be okay. For every person who has experienced recurrent miscarriage and felt completely invisible in their grief.You are not alone. And this episode is proof.🌈 Cry It Out Loud is hosted by Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit providing free daily support for infertility, IVF, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and pregnancy after loss.Every journey matters. Every loss matters. Every road to parenthood matters.chasingtherainbows.org

What would change if we stopped whispering about miscarriage and started saying it out loud?Everything. And Dr. Jessica Zucker has spent her entire career proving it.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.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.But here is what makes this conversation different from anything you have heard before.Dr. Zucker is not speaking about this from the outside.She has lived it herself.In this episode Dr. Zucker shares:Her own personal miscarriage story and what it felt like to experience a loss she had been clinically trained to help others throughThe 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 parentsWhat inspired her to write I Had a Miscarriage and what she wanted every reader to feel when they picked it upWhat Normalize It is asking of individuals, medicine, and culture and why normalization is not the same as minimizationThe patterns she sees every single day in the therapy room with women navigating reproductive griefWhat grieving people actually need versus what they typically receiveHow unprocessed reproductive grief shows up in women’s lives sometimes years after their lossWhat partners, friends and family members can actually do to support someone after pregnancy lossThe single biggest thing we as a culture get wrong about miscarriageWhat her own loss taught her that no degree or clinical training ever couldThis episode is for every person who has experienced a miscarriage or pregnancy loss and been handed silence when they needed so much more. For every woman who minimized her own grief because the world minimized it first. For everyone who has searched for the language, the permission, and the community to grieve out loud.Dr. Zucker gives all of that and more.Cry It Out Loud is the podcast of Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit providing free daily support for infertility, miscarriage, recurrent pregnancy loss, stillbirth, infant loss, and pregnancy after loss. Because every family navigating this journey deserves more than silence.Every loss matters. Every voice matters.chasingtherainbows.orgdrjessicazucker.com

What does it look like to turn the most devastating loss of your life into a platform that reaches millions?In this extraordinary episode of Cry It Out Loud, we sit down with Brianna Sistrunk — Mrs. Alabama America 2025 — who has just turned in her crown after a year of using one of the most visible platforms in the state to advocate openly and honestly for women navigating pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and infant loss.In 2015, Brianna lost her daughter Madison Reign — born still at 19 weeks. She has also endured an ectopic pregnancy. Rather than grieve in silence, Brianna picked up a camera in 2016 and began sharing her story on YouTube — raw, honest, and unscripted. Ten years later, women are still finding those videos and reaching out to say the words that change everything — me too.In this episode Brianna shares:Life before Madison — and who she was before grief reshaped everythingThe stillbirth of Madison Reign at 19 weeks and the loss nobody prepares you forNavigating ectopic pregnancy and carrying multiple lossesFaith, doubt, and finding Jesus Christ in the darkest season of lifeHow a YouTube video series became a ten year lifeline for grieving mothers worldwideUsing the Mrs. Alabama America 2025 platform to advocate for stillbirth awareness and pregnancy lossWhat bereaved mothers need that the world is not giving themThe legacy of Madison Reign — and what it means to carry her forwardThis episode is for every mother who has lost a baby and wondered if anyone would ever understand. For every woman who has grieved in silence because she didn't know where to turn. And for everyone who has ever asked whether their pain could ever become something that helps someone else.The answer is yes. Brianna's life is proof.Cry It Out Loud is hosted by Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit providing free daily support for infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and pregnancy after loss.Every loss matters. Every mother matters. Every baby loss matters.chasingtherainbows.org

What happens when you experience a miscarriage and the world expects you to just move on?In this powerful episode of Cry It Out Loud, we sit down with Jamilah Robinson, an entrepreneur, woman of faith, and co-founder of Missing Pieces Support Group in Houston, Texas, who experienced two miscarriages in 2018 and spent months grieving in silence, not knowing where to turn or who to tell.Jamilah opens up about the emotional and mental health weight of pregnancy loss that nobody prepares you for. The grief you carry publicly, the grief you perform your way through, and the moment she stopped suffering alone and found her people.She shares how faith carried her through the darkest season of her life, how her rainbow baby Lacy Olivia became her family's living promise, and how her own pain became the roadmap for thousands of other women who needed someone to say — me too.In this episode we cover:The emotional and mental health reality of miscarriage and pregnancy lossSuffering in silence — what grief actually feels like when no one talks about itFaith, anger, and finding God in the middle of devastating lossRainbow baby journeys — the beauty and the complicated feelings that come with themHow trauma can be repurposed into purpose for othersWhy community and peer support are critical after pregnancy and infant lossWhat bereaved mothers actually need from the people around themWhether you are navigating infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, or pregnancy after loss or supporting someone who is this episode will meet you exactly where you are.Cry It Out Loud is hosted by Chasing the Rainbows, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit providing free daily support for infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, pregnancy after loss, and maternal mental health. Our programs serve thousands of bereaved parents nationwide through peer support, community, education, and advocacy at no cost to the families we serve.Every loss matters. Every family deserves support.chasingtherainbows.org