Finding Hope After Losing a Twin (SIDS) + Pregnancy After Loss, Faith and Honoring Her Son | Episode 145 with Brooke Seibel

Episode 145

This week on the podcast I am interviewing Brooke Seibal – a mom to 5 children, 4 here on earth, 1 in heaven. During our time together Brooke shares the story of her son Knox, a twin that she lost suddenly just shy of 6 weeks old. Brook also shares about the unique challenges of losing a twin, as well as her grief journey and what healing has looked like for her.

We talk about parenting young children after loss and amidst grief and about her decision to have another baby just a few months after her son Knox had died. We talk about how she honors her son’s life in the day to day as well as the bigger milestone days like birthdays – what that practically looks like for her celebrating her son Jonathon while grieving his twin brother Knox. We talk about Brooke’s faith and what God has been teaching her over the last 2 years since experiencing such a tremendous loss.

Brooke shares with honesty, hope and joy during our time together and she gives an abundance of practical advice that I am certain can be of help to you, no matter your story. I pray this episode and the wisdom and hope shared here encourages you today.

QUESTIONS we discuss IN EPISODE 145

What do you wish others knew or understood about the unique challenges of losing a twin?
Have you struggled to want the world to see you as a twin mom? Do you have any encouragement or wisdom about embracing being a twin mom even when the world may not immediately see you as that?
The way you lost your son was incredibly traumatic, what has healing been like in that regard? Especially as you parented your living baby and two other small children?
How did you / do you fight fear in parenting your other children?
What did it look like to make the decision to have another baby?
What hope or wisdom would you give to a mom who is pregnant after loss or considering pregnancy after loss?
What practical ways do you honor Knox’s life as a family?
Regarding milestones and important dates: what was it like to celebrate a living son while grieving the loss of another?
What tangible ways that you honored or celebrated Knox on his birthday?
What would you say to a twin mom who has lost one of her baby’s and is facing a major milestone or holiday?
What did your faith look like in the season following Knox’s death?
How has your grief changed over the last 2 years?
What encouragement would you give to another grieving mom who is navigating life after loss?

Meet Brooke

My husband, David, and I have been married for 9 years. We have 5 totally children, a son who is 6 named Davey. We have a daughter, Piper, who is 4. Then we had twin sons in 2019, they were born on my 30th birthday the greatest Christmas present I’ve ever received. They were both born healthy, had a good birth. Then just shy of 6 weeks old I took the boys the the hospital for a breastfeeding support group and when I went to get our twin son, Knox out of his car seat he was unresponsive and blue.

Our twin son, Jonathan, is now 2. And a few months after losing Knox we got pregnant with another son in 2020. We gave him Knox’s initials, he is kaleb Lewis seibel. We attend cornerstone bible church in Westfield and live in Indianapolis. My husband is a head of school at a small classical Christian school in Carmel Indiana, and our older two kids attend Coram Deo Academy. I stay home with our kiddos.