"But being a grief expert doesn't come from knowing what the books say, or from learning in school. It comes from lived experience that a person can only understand if they've walked through it, one small and hard step at a time," she says. "It becomes something you know not just in your head, but deep in your bones. It changes who you are, how you face the world, how you interact with others."
"This loss has completely wrecked me for the moment," LeMieux tells TODAY.com. "Nobody expects to have a second trimester pregnancy loss once, let alone twice ... To have our journey in growing our family this way feels like a punch in the gut at best."
"No," she writes. "I do not believe everything happens for a reason."
"There were barely any signs, until it was too late," she says."
Ashley LeMieux lost a baby boy, Ashton Brooks LeMieux, at a routine 15-week appointment when the fetus had no heartbeat. Five years earlier she lost her first son, Jayce, due to sepsis from an infection and delivered during March 2020 COVID-19 restrictions. That earlier loss motivated study toward a Master's in mental health and wellness with emphasis on grief and bereavement. LeMieux emphasizes that grief expertise grows from lived experience and that her family includes a daughter born in 2022; the family had been expecting a son in April 2026.
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