Aug 31, 2026 · 26 min · 12 segments
In part two of this two-part episode, Devon returns to share how her son's NICU stay, early health challenges, and a difficult postpartum period unfolded, including her own struggle with postpartum…
How would you if let's say someone were coming to you for advice and they're no kids at their first time, they're about to get pregnant or their early pregnancy, how would you transfer that? Like what you've learned for yourself, how would you transfer that to somebody else who hasn't been through that? Can you, is that something that can be done? Like, is there advice you could give someone that would help them to that they wouldn't need to sort of go through it themselves.
Or similarly, if you could go back in time and have someone give you advice about how to think about pregnancy back before either your first miscarriage or at the beginning of that second pregnancy, what do you think might be helpful?
Yeah, I think, well, I mean, and people say it a lot, you know, we were just kind of talking about it, but I do think one thing is if someone told me, like, trust your gut and sort of like enlist help in asking, you know, Will came to a lot of appointments with being lucky that I have a, you know, that could help in those moments.
And my sister, you know, to sort of help gut check some of the things I was concerned about.
I think that would be one thing is to, if someone were to say, you know, really listen to yourself and ask the questions that you have, I think that would be, that would be one thing.
I think the other thing around like asking for help, I mean, one thing that in my first pregnancy, I didn't do as much of was, you know, I, I had, we, we had our doctors and nurses and my doula and my sister, but I think that I, I, so I, I kind of built this like system, the system is for support, but then there's like also accepting that help as well.
Um, And like sort of allowing yourself, I'm a firstborn daughter, so it doesn't come super naturally to me, but there's actually sort of letting people show up for you.
And I think like the more sort of ease you allow yourself with like being helped by the people around you, it takes a lot of weight off and sort of gives you space to ask questions like ask the, you know, to listen to yourself and like ask those questions.
I think it's also just like a good lesson for parenthood to accept help too.
You know, so you can do that during your pregnancy.
Yeah.
It's a good, it's a good step.
I mean, it's not, it's obviously these are, these are big moments, you know, pregnancy, parenthood, but just in life, that's really good advice.
How would you if let's say someone were coming to you for advice and they're no kids at their first time, they're about to get pregnant or their early pregnancy, how would you transfer that? Like what you've learned for yourself, how would you transfer that to somebody else who hasn't been through that? Can you, is that something that can be done? Like, is there advice you could give someone that would help them to that they wouldn't need to sort of go through it themselves.
Or similarly, if you could go back in time and have someone give you advice about how to think about pregnancy back before either your first miscarriage or at the beginning of that second pregnancy, what do you think might be helpful?
Yeah, I think, well, I mean, and people say it a lot, you know, we were just kind of talking about it, but I do think one thing is if someone told me, like, trust your gut and sort of like enlist help in asking, you know, Will came to a lot of appointments with being lucky that I have a, you know, that could help in those moments.
And my sister, you know, to sort of help gut check some of the things I was concerned about.
I think that would be one thing is to, if someone were to say, you know, really listen to yourself and ask the questions that you have, I think that would be, that would be one thing.
I think the other thing around like asking for help, I mean, one thing that in my first pregnancy, I didn't do as much of was, you know, I, I had, we, we had our doctors and nurses and my doula and my sister, but I think that I, I, so I, I kind of built this like system, the system is for support, but then there's like also accepting that help as well.
Um, And like sort of allowing yourself, I'm a firstborn daughter, so it doesn't come super naturally to me, but there's actually sort of letting people show up for you.
And I think like the more sort of ease you allow yourself with like being helped by the people around you, it takes a lot of weight off and sort of gives you space to ask questions like ask the, you know, to listen to yourself and like ask those questions.
I think it's also just like a good lesson for parenthood to accept help too.
You know, so you can do that during your pregnancy.
Yeah.
It's a good, it's a good step.
I mean, it's not, it's obviously these are, these are big moments, you know, pregnancy, parenthood, but just in life, that's really good advice.
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