Between Breaths Pediatric Lung Transplant: Before & Beyond
Between Breaths is a podcast created by a transplant mom who lived pediatric lung transplant with her son, Ryder.
This space is for families navigating life before transplant, during the hospital journey, and beyond, including the grief that often walks alongside it.
When you’re in this world, Googling at 2 a.m. leads to fear. Clinical answers don’t always give you the real-life experience you’re searching for.
Between Breaths fills the space between medical information and lived reality .... through honest conversations, shared stories, and community.
You’ll hear from transplant parents, caregivers, medical professionals, and families who understand this journey, along with reflections for those waiting, healing, surviving, or grieving.
This is not medical advice.
It’s support.
It’s shared experience.
It’s a place to feel less alone.
If you’re waiting, post-transplant, or carrying the loss of a child or friend along the way, you belong here.
Between Breaths Pediatric Lung Transplant: Before & Beyond
Latest Episodes
Rejection, Recovery, and the Fight to Keep New Lungs
In Episode 8, I’m sharing what happened in the early weeks after Ryder’s bilateral lung transplant, when what looked like steady healing suddenly turned into another fight for his new lungs. After discharge, we were learning our new baseline th...
The First Breath of a New Life
After months of waiting in the unknown, the call finally comes.In this episode of Between Breaths, Courtney takes you inside the moment every transplant family dreams of and fears at the same time, the moment the surgery is over...
The Call
What really happens when a family receives the call for a lung transplant?In this episode of Between Breaths, Courtney shares the moment her son Ryder received donor lungs after months on the pediatric lung tran...
Oxygen Tanks & Hard Truths: The Science of Surviving the Wait
In Episode 5, we step away from the waiting room and into the grueling daily reality of surviving the transplant list. Because the truth is, waiting isn't quiet. It isn't sitting by a phone. It's an exhausting, physically draining marathon....