TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses pregnancy after infant loss. Please listen with care and step away if this topic feels too heavy for you at this time. Resources and support links are included below.
Pregnancy after losing a baby can feel like “holding your breath for nine long months”—hope and fear coexisting with every heartbeat. How can parents navigate the emotional complexities of pregnancy after loss, rebuild trust in their bodies, and find space for both grief and joy?
In this episode of the Momcozy Village: Together We Grow podcast, host Lalaina Rabary continues her conversation with psychotherapist Angelica Quezada, who works with Pregnancy After Loss Support to help families move through grief with compassion, connection, and courage.
Drawing from her personal experience of miscarriage and her professional work in perinatal mental health, Angelica shares powerful insights into the emotional, physical, and relational challenges of pregnancy after infant loss. She explains how grief and hope can coexist, and how small, grounding practices—like mindful breathing, sensory awareness, and realistic affirmations—can help parents breathe again and reclaim moments of peace amid anxiety.
The conversation explores practical tools for coping with fear, communicating with healthcare providers, and setting healthy boundaries with family and friends. Angelica offers compassionate guidance on how to advocate for your needs during pregnancy, seek therapy or support groups, and create meaningful ways to honor babies who have died while embracing the hope of new life.
Episode Highlights
00:00 – Introduction and context.
00:48 – Angelica’s personal connection to this topic.
03:03 – Pregnancy after loss feels like holding your breath.
06:05 – Practical tools to help with the anxiety of trying again.
08:42 – What setting boundaries looks like in this context.
11:16 – How to advocate for yourself in a healthcare setting.
13:05 – How can family and partners support on this journey?
16:51 – Navigating the timing of trying again.
20:01 – How parents can honor a loss while embracing the hope.
22:18 – Angelica’s experience of hope after her loss.
24:01 – Angelica’s message for parents and partners who are considering pregnancy after loss.
About the Guest: Angelica Quezada
Angelica Quezada, LCSW, PMH-C, is a bilingual psychotherapist, coach, and women’s wellness advocate with over a decade of specialized experience in maternal mental health.
Drawing from her work in both inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, Angelica brings a unique perspective on the systemic gaps in care that impact women during some of life’s most sacred and challenging transitions.
Her personal experience with pregnancy loss deepened her commitment to advancing trauma-informed, culturally humble, and compassionate approaches to reproductive and perinatal mental health.
As both a therapist and coach, she creates space for healing, growth, and restoration, while her involvement with Pregnancy After Loss reflects her dedication to systemic change—improving provider education, expanding family support, and strengthening healthcare practices for mothers and their babies.
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Further Resources
Momcozy Village: Together We Grow is a podcast where moms gather to learn, share, and support each other. Hosted by Lalaina Rabary, each episode features inspiring conversations on motherhood: from career transitions to mental health and beyond.
Backed by Momcozy, makers of innovative wearable breast pumps and cozy nursing bras, the podcast is part of a movement to empower moms through every phase of early motherhood.
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