Comforting the Core: Moving through Miscarriage & Infant Loss

If you have experienced miscarriage or infant loss – or the loss of a child at any age, first let me say I’m sorry. My first pregnancy ended with a miscarriage at 11 weeks gestation, and that experience changed me forever. No part of me was left unaltered.

My body changed. My heart changed. My mind changed.

I was the first within my circle of friends to lose a baby, and I had a million questions including:

• What could I have done differently?
• Other women don’t want kids, but I do, so why?
• How do I move past this? Do I want to move past this?
• Will I ever carry a baby to term?
• Do I even want to get pregnant ever again?
• What if I’m broken?
• Will I see that baby in heaven?
• How do I help my body heal?
• When can I resume exercise?

I felt so lost and oddly ashamed of my questions. When I dared to ask some of them out loud, most people didn’t know what to say to me or how to support me.

So, I also felt very alone.

This course won’t answer all your questions, but it will offer you comfort. It may help you form questions you didn’t know you had. It won’t help you “move on” from your loss – because none of us want to leave our babies behind – rather, it will help you “move with” the grief you carry.

It will help you process.

It will help you move again – safely and gently.

It will help you reach out when you’re ready.

It will help you externalize and find words to help those closest to you HEAR you.

How might this short ecourse help?

We expect this course to help people in different ways on many different levels. One thing we are certain of is that recovery isn’t just emotional, nor is it just physical. However, as we serve thousands of women worldwide, we have seen a trend toward various aspects of healing from being ignored by professionals in the health and fitness realms. We believe this holistic course will literally help you “move” during and through and with your grief while helping you frame and process it in new ways.

Which Fit2B workouts are included in this ecourse?

• Basic Breath Work – Connect to your core with breathing techniques while laying in a comfortable position with eyes closed.
• Morning Moves – This peaceful routine provides soothing stretching motions to ease you out of bed on hard days.
• Red Redemption – Gentle motions and redeeming verbalizations, originally filmed as part of our Color Series.
• Dark Days – A guided exploration of the intuitive motions of grieve, including quotes from The Wild Edge of Sorrow.
• The Grief Recovery Routine – Full body exercise routine with a licensed physical therapist with experience in core rehab.

The grief routine was the catalyst for creating this course. We filmed it with Kelly Dean, physical therapist and founder of The Tummy Team a few years ago, and it has blessed thousands of women worldwide. Kelly, the instructor, has 3 children earthside, and she has experienced 5 difficult second-trimester losses. Her clinic in Camas, WA provides specialized core rehabilitation for people recovering from infant loss, core weakness and dysfunction, diastasis recti, hernia, prolapse, incontinence, and abdominal trauma.

Who contributed to this course?

In addition to the gentle exercise videos, “Comforting The Core: Moving Through Miscarriage & Infant Loss” currently includes 4 lessons from the following contributors:

• Beth Learn, core fitness specialist and founder of Fit2B
• Esther Pfeiffer, licensed mental health counselor specializing in grief and infant loss
• Megan Layaw, certified bereavement doula
• Kelly Dean, licensed physical therapist and founder of The Tummy Team

All of the contributors to this course have traveled the journey of miscarriage, late term pregnancy loss, still birth, and/or infant loss.

How long will you have access to it?

This course is yours for as long as you want it. You can go through it at your own pace. You can spread the lessons out or do them all in one day. You may choose to go through it once or explore the interviews and exercise videos over and over.

How can you begin this course?

To gain access and begin, simply make a payment of any amount $4.97 or higher during the checkout process for this product. Because of the unique nature of this course — and out of a desire to help grieving families while giving back to our community — we are accepting payments of any amount $4.97 or higher with all profits (every penny) going to stillbirthday.com

If you already have a username on Fit2B please be sure to login prior to going through the checkout process it so that your account stays organized.

If you are a premium member then you have access to all our courses. If you’d like this one, please email [email protected] and we will adjust your account if you don’t already see it in there.

How does this ecourse work?

Once you finish the checkout process, you will receive several emails. Please check your spam folder if you don’t see them and then mark us as a safe sender. You can access all of your ecourses here on Fit2B under your account or under “courses” in the main navigation menu bar.

Always log in before trying to access any of the protected content on Fit2B or you won’t be able to access your workouts and courses.

You may work through the lessons at your own pace, in your own time. You can do them once or many times. They are yours.

Some of our courses here on Fit2B are metered, coming to you once per week. Some are open access – like this one – allowing you to bounce from lesson to lesson with free will.

This course is open access. Once you have gone through the checkout process for this course (you don’t need to pay a thing if you’re a premium member, but donations to stillbirthday.com are still encouraged) you will receive an email confirmation with a link to the course. Save the emails you get so that you have a record of your purchase and the link to access the course.

A few more thoughts…

This course cannot contain all that we’d like to share with those who are experiencing miscarriage and infant loss. We plan to add a couple more lessons in the near future, and we hope you will leave us a review and share this product with anyone you think it might bless.

Thank you for learning about Comforting The Core: Moving Through Miscarriage & Infant Loss

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