Colette Kenny Verdes

Colette Kenny Verdes is a licensed professional counselor and educator based in Pennsylania. Grief work is her passion. Miscarriage, perinatal loss, pregnancy complications, maternal health, and the NICU experience are issues that she cares deeply about. Colette is also a Compassionate Bereavement Care Certified Provider via the MISS Foundation, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Trust, and the Center for Loss and Trauma. She employs a mindfulness approach when working with grief. Colette’s background includes over two decades in the field of education. When she is not working she enjoys running, exploring spirituality, and spending time with her family, and two-year-old dog Carmella. Reach Colette at noesageinfo@gmail.com or 610-810-1742.

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Life Changes After Pregnancy Loss

In the midst of the pandemic, after giving up trying for a second child, I found out that I was pregnant with our daughter quite by surprise. I remember looking out the window of my bathroom out to my backyard as I waited for the test results. I could see my Mother Mary statue in the corner where I keep it, and I felt remotely calm. I was grounded in the reality that at 44, my chances of being pregnant naturally were slim to none. But then I looked down and saw two lines. My heart was beating, and my […]

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Missed Miscarriage

What is a Missed Miscarriage? Two years ago this week, I got pregnant. Sometime that June, at my 9-week doctor’s appointment, I would find out that I had “a missed miscarriage.” I had never heard of this term before except for a few days before the appointment. I was thumbing through my What to Expect When You’re Expecting book and found this description: “A missed miscarriage, which is very rare, is when the embryo or fetus dies but continues to stay in the uterus. Often the only signs of a missed miscarriage are the loss of all pregnancy symptoms. Confirmation […]

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