Alix Strauss is a trend, culture and lifestyle journalist; an award-winning, four-time published author; and speaker. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, among other publications. She is currently on tour with her recently re-issued cult classic novel, The Joy of Funerals which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

It’s no surprise that everything we do a Fresh Starts boils down to the concept of support. This is especially true when it comes to supporting our loved ones experiencing pregnancy and infant loss. As we talked to these amazing women and experts, we asked them: how can we support someone experiencing loss? What should we say? What shouldn’t we say? We have answers for you!

As we learned throughout producing this season, miscarriage is incredibly common, and yet we’re not talking about it. So, we’re going to talk about it. We talked to four women with vastly different miscarriage stories about their experience with pregnancy loss, and how it impacted the way they moved forward through life.

It’s no surprise that we’re all about searching out support from Experts when people are experiencing hard life moments, so we turned to the Experts to chat about miscarriage - and why we don’t talk about miscarriage. We asked all of the Experts we talked to the same two questions: how common is miscarriage, and if it is so common, why are we not talking about it more?

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Laura Malcolm, the founder of Give InKind, shares the story of her daughter Layla, whom was stillborn on November 11, 2013.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Ashley Spivey shares the story of her son CJ, who was stillborn on November 26th, 2020. Thank you for sharing CJ with us, Ashley. We will remember him always.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Jena Graham is a college friend, a teacher, a mother and wife, and a loss mom. Her son Charlie was born January 2020 and died 3 days later. She shares her son Charlie’s story and life with us.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Nikki Dinki is a chef, author, mom, TV Host, and comedy writer. I was first introduced to Nikki when she was on Food Network Star. Her daughter Willa was been stillborn, on her due date, November 25th, 2013.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Rae Hoffman Jager is a poet and writer, yoga teacher, former doula, and currently, in nursing school. Rae’s son Fox was stillborn on Thanksgiving Day, 2021.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Anna Burgess Yang is a freelance content marketer and journalist in the suburbs of Chicago. Anna came back on A Fresh Story to share her raw, honest, and beautiful story of her daughters, Nelle Claudia Dej and Iris Madeline Hnub.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. We talked to Alex Mooney about the loss of her son, Clark William Mooney in 2018 and how his death was the impetus for her major career change, and how she honors his legacy to support other loss families.