Confronted

Eighteen months after losing Mackenzie, Matt and Lauren return to the hospital.
They’re pregnant again - carrying hope, fear, and the memory of what happened before.
The final episode follows the tense hours leading up to the birth, and the moment when everything hangs in the balance.
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Can you risk loving another child after losing one?
Matt and Lauren begin the uncertain journey of IVF, confronting fear, hope, and the possibility of opening themselves up to heartbreak again.
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Sometimes the only way forward is to leave everything behind.
Matt and Lauren travel to Europe hoping distance might help them breathe again.
But grief has a way of following you - even to the other side of the world.
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Grief doesn’t always look the way people expect.
For Matt, the months after Mackenzie’s death spiral into anxiety, therapy sessions, and a drink-driving charge that forces him to confront parts of himself he’d been avoiding for years.
Sometimes the hardest moments are the ones that force you to face yourself.

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Is it possible to laugh again without betraying your grief?
Less than two weeks after Mackenzie’s death, Matt finds himself filming a survival show teaser in the Marlborough Sounds with comedian Tom Sainsbury.
It’s surreal. It’s uncomfortable. And somehow… it’s also the first time he laughs again.

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