Family Engagement Fridays Podcast by ELV
Oct 9, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail In honor of Grief and Pregnancy Loss month, through an open and heartfelt conversation, Michele Provost, Early Learning Ventures…
Michele ProvostGuest
Jennifer Garcia RosendoHost
Um, well, I'm a, a social worker by profession, and I've worked, um, in my whole career with families and young kids.
So I, I feel like I'm a big advocate for families, um, who are, you know, starting out on their journey with, um, adding children to their family or already have children.
Um, so I enjoy working with those kinds of families and all different kinds of, um, experiences.
So it's just, uh, it's just kind of near and dear to my heart as, uh, because I know what it's like, and I know, um, how it can be.
But I've also can see through to the other side because I now have a son who's, uh, a young adult.
And, um, those experiences are behind me, but they're still, um, they're still there.
And I should start by saying that October is pregna- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Um, but essentially, pregnancy loss is just the, the death of an unborn baby or fetus at any time during pregnancy.
So it includes things such as miscarriage, which we've certainly heard, you know, a lot about, ectopic pregnancy, a stillbirth, a molar pregnancy.
Um, it kind of encompasses any kind of loss, um, of, in a pregnancy, and, and it's super common, way more common than I think people think.
So all those kind of different situations put together is as common as one in four pregnancies end in some-
That is very surprising because I think as a society, we've gotten a little bit better about talking about, um, pregnancy and infant loss.
Um, well, I'm a, a social worker by profession, and I've worked, um, in my whole career with families and young kids.
So I, I feel like I'm a big advocate for families, um, who are, you know, starting out on their journey with, um, adding children to their family or already have children.
Um, so I enjoy working with those kinds of families and all different kinds of, um, experiences.
So it's just, uh, it's just kind of near and dear to my heart as, uh, because I know what it's like, and I know, um, how it can be.
But I've also can see through to the other side because I now have a son who's, uh, a young adult.
And, um, those experiences are behind me, but they're still, um, they're still there.
And I should start by saying that October is pregna- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Um, but essentially, pregnancy loss is just the, the death of an unborn baby or fetus at any time during pregnancy.
So it includes things such as miscarriage, which we've certainly heard, you know, a lot about, ectopic pregnancy, a stillbirth, a molar pregnancy.
Um, it kind of encompasses any kind of loss, um, of, in a pregnancy, and, and it's super common, way more common than I think people think.
So all those kind of different situations put together is as common as one in four pregnancies end in some-
That is very surprising because I think as a society, we've gotten a little bit better about talking about, um, pregnancy and infant loss.
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