Loss Archives - AllPaths Family Building

LaMone’s Journey: I became what I needed.

by AllPaths Family Building | Jan 28, 2025 | Family Building Story, Fertility Treatment, Loss, Podcast

LaMone Downey Leonard, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Founder and CEO of Rising Hope Counseling and Wellness joins us to discuss her family building journey. Her mission is to create safe and supportive healing spaces for those experiencing...

Alison’s Journey: “My heart was missing a piece and it was you.”

by AllPaths Family Building | Jan 21, 2025 | Family Building Story, Fertility Treatment, Loss, Podcast

A Connecticut native who now calls Massachusetts home, Alison is a second-grade teacher and solo parent of one. Alison walks us along her path to becoming a single mother by choice, recurrent pregnancy losses, the grief of not being able to give her son a sibling, and...

Medical Need Deserving of Coverage

by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 15, 2024 | Advocacy, Family Building Story, Fertility Treatment, Infertility, Loss

Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 3 By Maggie Husbands 89/70. I stare at this extremely low blood pressure, see my heart rate climb and feel clots the size of baseballs pour out of my body. As an ER nurse with over six years of experience, I know this...

Stephanie’s Journey: I needed someone to say, “You had a baby, he passed away. Do you miss him?”

by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 10, 2024 | Family Building Story, Loss, Podcast, Support

Propa City Community Outreach founder Stephanie Crawford shares her family story, from the heartbreaking loss of her first son at 39 weeks to finding purpose in her pain by supporting others impacted by pregnancy and infant loss. Through her work as an educator,...

Julie’s Journey: It began several states ago…

by AllPaths Family Building | Nov 19, 2024 | Family Building Story, Infertility, IVF, Loss, Podcast

Founder of Building Military Families Network, Julie Eshelman shares about her ongoing family building journey, one that spans many years and states, highlighting the unique challenges that military families often face. We also hear about Julie’s rise as a leader in...

Polly’s Journey: Someone shouldn’t have to experience tragedy for things to be equal.

by AllPaths Family Building | Oct 29, 2024 | Advocacy, Family Building Story, LGBTQ+, Loss, Podcast

Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) and recipient of the 2024 AllPaths Advocacy Award, Polly Crozier shares her own challenging family building story, as well as her advocacy for parentage equality inclusive fertility...