Finding Light After Loss
After having a stillborn baby, it can be difficult to know how to continue. In this special episode of Road to Resilience, recorded in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, guest host Dr. Joanne Stone, director of Mount Sinai’s Rainbow Clinic, speaks with Stephanie Lee, a former patient who lost her baby, Elodie, at 8 months. Stephanie shares her journey through unimaginable grief, her path toward healing, and how the Rainbow Clinic supported her throughout subsequent pregnancies. Today, she mentors others facing similar losses—transforming pain into purpose and love into resilience.
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Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host, Stephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting.
This installment features a special edition of our show, in honor of October being Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Joanne Stone, MD, MS, is the system chair of the Raquel and Jamie Galinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
She's also the director of the Mount Sinai Rainbow Clinic, which offers enhanced prenatal care to patients Following stillbirth on this episode, Dr. Stone interviews one of those patients, Stephanie Lee.
While receiving treatment at other medical institutions during and immediately after her pregnancy, Stephanie experienced the loss of her baby Elodie at roughly eight months. In the aftermath, she came to the Mount Sinai Rainbow Clinic for treatment and guidance, eventually becoming a mentor to those who have experienced similar loss.
Stephanie's struggle, [00:01:00] pain and resurgence serves as a model for those who must soldier on through the most devastating of circumstances. We're honored to welcome Stephanie Lee and Dr. Joanne Stone to the show.
Joanne Stone: Stephanie, welcome. So good to see you.
Stephanie Lee: Good to see you.
Joanne Stone: So we go back a long way just back in 2022 was, I think when we first had our first conversation. So tell me a little bit about your life before you became pregnant the first time with Elodie.
Stephanie Lee: Sure. Up until then I'd been a nurse here in New York City. I've practiced in Maryland, Baltimore, as well. And I was working as a critical care nurse. Currently I do administration, but my life was pretty simple.
It was just me and my husband. We got married pretty early in life. I was 24.