Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Mike Blown, MM Counsellor and MBACP Clinical Hypnotherapist to the podcast. Kelly and Mike discuss Mike’s personal experience of baby loss, men’s mental health and the amazing benefits of Hypnotherapy, a new service for MM. Mike opens up about his loss and how it affected him as a person, a man and his relationship with his wife. Kelly and Mike discuss misconceptions around Hypnotherapy, the myths and the amazing benefits it provides to someone...
Jun 17, 2025•43 min
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes an international listener, Serena, to the Podcast. The lovely Serena, from Canada, is also a fellow podcasters and hosts 'The Still Hopeful Podcast' Serena is Mummy to Christopher, who was stillborn at full term, and to her rainbow baby, Veronica. Through Serena's grief, emotional struggles and overwhelmed by pregnancy after loss she created her podcast to reach families that would understand the situation. Serena bravely opens up to Kelly and ...
Jun 03, 2025•48 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Granny Isobel to the podcast. Isobel wanted to come on the podcast in memory of her granddaughter, Olivia Rose. Kelly and Isobel discuss the benefits of counselling and Isobel wants to spread awareness for other grieving grandparents. Isobel shares that last year they lost multiple family members then sadly lost Olivia Rose. Isobel explains how awful that year was for them all and their life left like it had just stopped. Making Miracles provid...
May 20, 2025•23 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Megan to the Podcast. Megan is from Surrey, England and sadly lost her baby girl, Clara, 2024 at 17 weeks pregnant due to an incompetent cervix and infection. Megan has a very unique story and wanted to come on to raise awareness and connect with anyone that has experienced the same. During Megan's pregnancy she experienced a lot of uncertainty and trauma. After a lot of investigation around Clara's loss, the medical professionals found somethi...
May 06, 2025•53 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Stephen to the Podcast. Stephen bravely opens up about his grief, his feelings and speaks out for all grieving dads. Stephen shares it was only after watching the Disney film "Inside Out 2" that he realised how much his anxiety was taking over who he was. For many years Stephen dealt with so much trauma and multiple loss that he became very distant. Stephen explains that he reached out to Making Miracles for support and shares how much counsell...
Apr 22, 2025•40 min•Season 7Ep. 8
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Kim to the podcast. Kim wanted to come on and share her story in memory of her son Jaxon. Kim opens up to Kelly and shares her story of pregnancy / birth trauma, all the complications she and Jaxon faced and how they lost Jaxon. Early on in Kims pregnancy Jaxon was diagnosed with exomphalos. (Omphalocele, also known as exomphalos, is a rare birth defect that occurs when the abdominal wall doesn't form properly early in pregnancy. This allows th...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Send us a text This weeks episode brings a slightly different feel. Kelly and Hayley discuss Making Miracles, the important work we do and all our fundraising opportunities. You can access local, national & worldwide events. PARTICIPATION IS EVERYTHING Get fit, challenge yourself, raise awareness and funds for a great cause. As a Birth Trauma & Baby Bereavement Care Charity, we offer families support following pregnancy trauma and baby loss. We believe that no one should feel alone follo...
Mar 24, 2025•29 min
Send us a text On this week episode Kelly welcome Amy to the podcast. Amy joins us from Newcastle and wants to spread awareness around birth trauma, loss and staying positive. Amy relives her journey of trauma, the loss of her two babies Joe & Joelle and pregnancy after loss. Amy suffered with preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes (PPROM) that's when your waters break before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Amy shares that, even after her losses, she still sees pregnancy as an absolutely beautiful j...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Emily to the podcast. Emily has sadly used our counselling support service multiple times due to 7 miscarriages with multiple complications. Emily opens up about how mentally tough it was to work on the maternity ward whilst she was grieving. She loved her job but for her own mental health she had to take a step back. Kelly and Emily discuss the lack of education and support around early miscarriage and they touch upon the importance of positiv...
Feb 24, 2025•48 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Send us a text "I want people to listen without any shame or blame for the way they’ve gone through their grief journey this is all about compassion for yourself and finding a way to become less stuck." On this episode Kellys welcomes Katie, one of our counsellors, to the podcast. Katie is very proud to be a MM counsellor and wanted to share her experience and knowledge around Sudo grief, Trauamtic & Complex grief. When we are in grief the pain feels so intolerable that we use all our defenc...
Feb 11, 2025•40 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Send us a text On this weeks podcast Kelly brings some exciting news!! Kelly and Becci introduce our new National Online Counselling Service. We can now provide and offer our specialist online Birth Trauma & Baby Loss counselling to any familily living outside of Kent and Medway. Counselling is not a support to help you move on from your loss but to validate your trauma, your feelings and help you understand how to move forward. Counselling also provides security and supports your mental and...
Jan 28, 2025•34 min
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Roxanne to the Podcast. Roxanne joins Kelly all the way from Bristol and shares that Baby Loss, Grief & Love has given her a lot of comfort so she wanted to come on and share her story in the hope to help others. As well as loosing both her son Jacob at 24 weeks and her daughter Thea at 28 weeks, Roxanne opens up about the near loss of her life due to HELLP syndrome. It is important to Roxanne for her to spread awareness about Pre-eclampsia...
Jan 13, 2025•37 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Send us a text On this weeks epsiode Kelly welcomes Dean to the podcast. Dean wanted to come on to the podcast to raise awarness on baby loss, the feelings around how a man/dad reacts and where he is now. Dean talks about the importance of close friends, family members and colleagues assume very quckly that 'you are okay', just beacuse you are just carrying on with everyday life. Explains how is grief hits him randomly and out of the blue. Dean opens up that he grieved at night alone when his fa...
Dec 17, 2024•56 min
Send us a text On this episode Kelly welcomes back team members Hayley and Becci to the podcast. The Team talk about the coming season Christmas and all the pressures it brings, especially while grieving. Kelly also talks about the importance of looking after yourself and doing what's right for you this Christmas. Making Miracles' will be providing support for local and national families so please don't feel you are alone this season. We are, stronger together. 1. Compassion Circles (Free Online...
Dec 03, 2024•29 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Francesca to the podcast. Francesca talks about the loss of her son Arthur and pregnancy after loss. Arthur was stillborn at 33weeks and Fran wanted to come on and tell his story. Francesca openly talks about how she struggled with feeling a lot of guilt but after her counselling with Making Miracles she felt completely differently. Her counsellor asked her three simple questions: What is guilt? What does it mean? and Why do you feel guilty? Af...
Nov 19, 2024•41 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Send us a text On this episode Kelly welcomes new team member Olivia to the podcast. Olivia has joined Team MM as a Community Fundraiser and talks about her passion for helping bereaved families after her own experience of trauma and loss. Olivia shares her experience of multiple miscarriage as well as her own anxiety around pregnancy after loss. Kelly and Olivia also talk about MM's new and exciting online support sessions called the 'Compassion Circle'. This is our new online support pilot and...
Nov 05, 2024•41 min
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes back fellow counsellor, Jodie Sturges to the podcast. (Dip, Couns MBACP, Integrative Adult & Childrens Counsellor) Jodie has been a therapist for nearly 11 years and has worked with our families for many years. Jodie wanted to return to the podcast and discuss a very good topic about families and women in grief whist dealing with ADHD. Jodie shares her personal journey of her recent ADHD diagnoses and wants this episode to raise awareness a...
Oct 22, 2024•37 min
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly explains all about Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW), what this means for families, what we are doing at Making Miracles and talks about how we are all in this together. With this years theme, 'together, we care' BLAW is a time to remember, honour and be there for one another. We, at MM know and understand how important this week is. Not only for the families but also more widely in raising awareness of how baby loss impacts everyone it touches. Kelly tal...
Oct 07, 2024•33 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Stacy to the podcast. Stacy relives her experience of the loss of her two boys Leo & Ethan. Stacy shares her experience of a missed miscarriage and PPROM (Preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes (PPROM) is when your waters break before 37 weeks of pregnancy.) Stacy openly shares she is currently in therapy and wanted to open up about on how she is feeling, coping and trying to understand her trauma and loss. Stacy touches upon the pressures...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes service user, Sophie to the podcast. Sophie shares her story of miscarriage, the death of her daughter Stella and the horrible anxiety around pregnancy after loss. Sophie talks about how she lost her daughter Stella and was faced with the awful decision of TFMR Termination for Medical Reasons. Kelly and Sophie talk about the terrifying reality, feelings and anxiety around making the decision to try for a baby following loss. Sophie explains abo...
Sep 09, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Georgina, Consultant Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Coach to the podcast. Georgina shares an insight into Hypnotherapy, clearing up any myths and talking about the real benefits it can provide anyone going through grief. Georgina and Kelly also touch upon trying again after loss. Talking about the sexual pressures couples face and how ultimately communication is key. Kelly and Georgina discuss that Hypnot...
Aug 27, 2024•50 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes MM counsellor Sarah to the podcast. Sarah shares her story of baby loss, trauma and infertility. Sarah discusses how she feels about not being able to have children, what this means for her as a women, how it has affected her past relationships and how now she uses her own experiences to help others. Trigger warning - Sarah very bravely also opens up about the guilt and feelings she carries following a very upsetting personal experience which l...
Aug 13, 2024•33 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Ellie to the podcast. Ellie is from Essex and found ‘Baby Loss, Grief & Love’ through searching the internet for extra support. Ellie is a childhood cancer survivor and talks about the links between her cancer and the loss of her son Noah. Ellie bravely talks about her traumatic birth as she had Noah before making it safely to the hospital. Kelly and Ellie talk about the benefits of counselling, how she has lost relationships but also how s...
Jul 30, 2024•55 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly continues the theme around death and how it affects us as individuals as well as a wider family. Kelly is joined by a Making Miracles counsellor, Alison. Together Kelly and Alison discuss how we deal with grief as a Nation and how extremely important it is not to suppress your emotions while grieving as those feelings will eventually come out it different ways. Alison also shares experiences of cultural differences in death and how she was moved by the ...
Jul 16, 2024•54 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Send us a text On this weeks podcast Kelly dicusses the 'D' word. Kelly starts season 6 with the hard hitting subject of ‘Death'. Kelly talks about how we all deal with death in so many different ways and generally this is due to how we've been brought up around death, culturally and also the age in which it changed our lives. Kelly talks about the difference between baby loss and loosing another person close to us. “When you grieve someone in which you've shared memories with is different to gr...
Jul 02, 2024•25 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Send us a text On this weeks podcast Kelly welcomes Team MM members (Becci & Hayley) to the podcast. 10 years on Making Miracles is still going strong and Kelly, Becci & Hayley share the reason behind why Making Miracles started, each of their own journeys and the importance of the podcast. They all talk about the importance of emotions, validation and even many years on how much their grief and others grief affects them. Baby Loss, Grief and Love has touched and supported so many people...
Mar 19, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Chris, Founder & CEO of fundraising platform GoodHub to the podcast. Making Miracle's use GoodHub for all online donations and ticketed events. We have recently got to know Chris through the partnership and found out that Chris has personal experience of baby bereavement, trauma and loss. Chris was so brave and kind enough to share his story with us. Back in 2006 Chris and his then partner experienced an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, near...
Feb 27, 2024•28 min
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Natalie to the Podcast. Natalie wanted to come on a share her story in memory of her son Alfie. Alfie was born at 28 weeks premature and sadly died in hospital, at only 5 months old. Natalie relives her traumatic time living within the NICU walls but also shares her happy memories with Alfie. Tragically, behind Alfies smiles he was extremely poorly and sadly could not surrive with out life support. Natalie and Kelly talk about the horrific deci...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes, service user, Bec to the podcast. Bec opens up about her missed miscarriage and how isolated she felt after her loss. Bec describes how she felt like a complete failure and believed it was all her fault. After having counselling with Making Miracles she worked through her trauma, loss and was able to process her feelings differently and eventually, after a long time, say the words "it wasn't my fault". Kelly and Bec talk about validation and h...
Jan 29, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Send us a text On this weeks episode Kelly welcomes Sarah to the podcast. January is an extremely trigging month for Sarah and it was important for her to come on and share her story. One, to show she is still here and still standing but also for her son, Mylo. This January marks the 4th year of loosing her son Mylo, the 3rd year loosing her Mum to Covid, as well as, her daughters 3rd birthday. Sarah really opens up and discusses how she struggles with the acceptance of all her grief. Sarah expl...
Jan 16, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 6
