Grief is a strange thing; you’re crumbling, everything is crumbling, but you’re hyperaware. It’s as if everything is magnified, and you’re shrinking.
I nod my head. Silence. In my ob-gyn’s office, I am rational and quiet, composed. I can hear my doctor explaining that the fetus’s heart has stopped beating. The “fetus.” My baby . . . my fourth baby. The words seem to be flowing in slow motion. My husband, Clay, is arguing; insisting that we do another ultrasound. This can’t be happening again. But it is, and I know my doctor is speaking the truth. I felt the void weeks ago but was too afraid to acknowledge it. Now it’s slapping me in the face. It’s exploding in my chest. It’s seeping from me and drowning me.
This is my third of four miscarriages. It’s the most traumatic, by far. It’s also the one that wakes me up.
In 2021, Laura Fletcher founded Selah Fertility to address a deeply personal and deeply problematic occurrence in women’s care: the commonality of “unexplained” miscarriage and infertility. The Grace in Grief is her breathtakingly honest story of her struggles with multiple miscarriages and the eventual birth of her second daughter. Through this book and Selah, the author leaves no stone unturned in the pursuit of arming women with the insights and power they need to optimize their health and their fertility.
Fletcher’s readers will find a strong, empathetic, and well-qualified author who has endured the depths of some of the most difficult experiences and emotions any woman can experience. This is a gifted author with a deeply moving story who will change women’s lives.
Laura Fletcher, CD (DONA) is the mother of two, founder and CEO of Selah Fertility and author of The Grace in Grief: Healing and Hope After Miscarriage (GreenLeaf 10.4.22). Born in Ullapool, Scotland, Laura grew up in a family of entrepreneurs that valued and demanded transparency, selflessness, and hustle. Community and advocacy have always driven Laura in her career. From jobs within hospitality, to launching a female owned wine company, The Inquisitor Wine Company, Laura was always called to connect with and to empower women.
In 2018, after surviving multiple devastating, back to back miscarriages, Laura took matters into her own hands. Taking a stand against the grief that had derailed her life for years, Laura shifted from a victim mentality to a position of self-advocacy and action. In 2020, Laura became part of the solution and became a certified Doula through Dona International and shortly after founded Selah Fertility to address a deeply personal and deeply problematic occurrence in women’s care.
Founding Selah Fertility, in 2021, came from a passion to address “unexplained" miscarriages and widely experienced fertility issues. Through Selah, Laura is in the pursuit to equip every individual with the tools they need to optimize their health and, as an extension, their fertility. Selah uses modern and traditional doctor-approved practices to create a bold and personalized fertility journey for each and every family. Selah’s bespoke approach delivers grace to preconception, during pregnancy, and postpartum seasons.
The Grace in Grief: Healing and Hope After Miscarriage (10/4/22) details Laura’s journey through four earth shattering miscarriages after the birth of her first daughter. She authentically and transparently shares her suffering and the process of pulling herself out of years of grief to shine light on an experience that, to her dismay, happens to 1 in 4 pregnancies.
Today, Laura, her husband, and their two daughters live in Orlando FL. Laura loves to be on the water and traveling! She and her family regularly spend time in their second home, in Scotland.
