feeling letting your baby go to start her new life? it was scary for me. i knew that the way it was going to be harder than she ever dropped. like any parent, laura worried about her daughter finding her place in this new life. she s very shy and i did have concerns about her making friends. we felt like base housing would be safer for her because her husband was out in the field so often. it wasn t long before down and errin learned they were expecting a baby. she was very excited. i was excited for her. sadly, her excitement was short-lived. in early 2014, she suffered a miscarriage. was it hard for both of you to hear that news? it was very hard and i was actually in the middle of a training exercise out in the field. and i received the message over the radio. lucia called me down to his vehicle and said that your wife had just had a miscarriage and she s in the hospital.
are actually preventable. one of the first large scale reviews of post-pregnancy deaths revealed that the current leading cause of death in new moms is not physical complications, but mental health. joining me now is nbc news correspondent morgan radford, morgan, and you re very pregnant, so watch out for this, it s really hard having a kid, and the aftermath of that mentally can be really tough thing to go through, especially for moms who might feel like there s not a lot of help out there for them. and even preparing for it can be mentally pretty tough, right? it s something that a lot of new moms don t talk about. imagine that you re talking about mental health, but 80% of those deaths being preventable. it s pretty striking. a lot of groups that advocate for moms and mental health say while this data isn t new, the data is new, but it s not surprising. these groups have been sounding the alarms for years. now one group of women is hoping it will help draw new attention to the pro