Content warning: infant loss
Part 2 of 2 with the wonderful Emma Mitchell. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there first.
We pick up right where we left off, inside the NICU, where Emma spent every single day with her daughter Evie, who was born at 23 weeks and 6 days. We talk about the moment everything shifted, the decision she and Devin made together, and the 43 minutes they'll carry with them forever. We also talk about her brother Gord meeting Evie, the Ottawa Senators showing up on the most unlikely of days, a guitar, a playlist, and a room that felt a little like home.
But this episode is also about what happens after. How pickleball pulled Emma back out into the world. The advocacy work she's done with CHEO that's already made real change for NICU families. And what it looks like to keep being a mom to a baby who isn't here anymore - because she is still very much Evie's mom.
Emma is a pickleball player, a guitar player, an open mic host, an advocate, and simply one of the most generous humans I've ever had on this pod. I'm so glad she shared Evie with us. x
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