Presentation Offerings
Michelle Valiukenas, Speaker
Michelle is a mom of three: Sweet Pea, who she lost to miscarriage in 2017; Colette, who died at nine days old in 2018; and her only living child, Elliott, who was born in 2020 via gestational carrier. Michelle founded and runs The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation, a nonprofit with a mission to improve outcomes of pregnancy, childbirth, prematurity, and infancy, as well as aid in the grieving process through financial assistance, education, and advocacy.
Topics Offered
- Infertility
- IVF
- Pregnancy complications/hospitalization Miscarriage
- Pregnancy After Loss
- Traumatic birth
- NICU
- Infant loss/loss after a NICU stay
- Trying to conceive after loss
- Gestational surrogacy
- Supporting parents in NICU
- Supporting loss parents
- Parenting after loss
- Parenting Covid Generation
- Advocating for Yourself and Others Starting and Running a Nonprofit
- Children and Grief
- Keeping Sibling Relationships Alive in Death
- How Employers Can Best Support Parents How Healthcare Providers Can Best Support Loss Parents
Examples of Past Presentations
- Hidden Costs of NICU
- Breastfeeding After Trauma
- Giving Yourself G.R.A.C.E. After Loss
- Supporting Loss Parents
- Living With Grief and Parenting After Loss
- How to Memorialize Your Losses
- Finding Resources For Families in Crisis
- How Healthcare Providers Can Best Support Families with Past Trauma and Loss