Hope Blooms: Surviving Miscarriage Together
We are here to love, support, and dignify the women and families who have suffered early pregnancy loss. Through story-telling and educational interviews the Hope Blooms podcast helps us build a community so that no one suffers miscarriage alone. Hope Blooms is a production of the Early Pregnancy Loss Association.
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EPLA hosted a lunch and learn at Hillsdale Hospital featuring Angie Winton of Metro Detroit Share. We hosted this event with the hope to help medical providers prepare women for home miscarriages. After the event Angie and Maria sat down to talk more.
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Often women and families who have suffered early pregnancy loss do not have the opportunity to honor their children through a public funeral service. But what is lost when we don't have a way to communally process our grief?
Rev. Adam Rick shares his experience leading Blue Christmas and Rachel weeping services for those suffering grief or child loss.
Rev. Rick is a priest in the Anglican Chur...
In this week's episode writer, wife, and mother, Nadya Williams, shares her stories of loss and the burial of her two sons on their private property. Years later a move across state lines and a significant shift in the law changes everything.
Don't miss her original story at Current.
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Maria talks with Hayley Trotter, Director of Clinical Operations for Haven Miscarriage Clinic, a medical clinic designed specifically to serve miscarrying women that hopes to open next year in the Atlanta area. Maria and Hayley discuss the importance of miscarriage-specific medical care and how Haven will accompany women through pregnancy loss.
https://www.havenmiscarriageclinic.com/
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Women suffering early pregnancy loss are often unable to bury their babies, especially in cemeteries. This can be for many reasons sometimes they are unable to collect the body, the body was needed for testing, or they do not have the resources available bury their little one. Many women aren't even given the information necessary to move forward with how to proceed even if they wanted a burial.
But thi...
Miscarriage myths have always been out there. In this episode Emily and Maria tackle some current myths and misconceptions.
Taking from this great article from Natural Cycles, Emily and Maria explore three prominent myths that should be eliminated and understood fully. This episode will offer the truth about treatment for miscarriage, the length of a miscarriage, and the physical experience of miscarriage.
Anne Bradstreet weathered the harsh New England Winters and the hard life of starting a society in the new world.
America's first poet, Bradstreet chronicles the joy and pain of her life experience. While she never lost any of her own children - she suffered the grief of infant death losing several of her grandchildren.
Her poetry points to the pain and grief of losing a little one all too so...
While miscarriage is common it is often misunderstood. This is your primer for all of the basic definitions, medical jargon, and common phrases surrounding early pregnancy loss.
Missed miscarriage? Spontaneous abortion? Dilation and Curettage? Molar Pregnancy? It is important to have a clear and simple understanding of each of these words, even if you have never experienced pregnancy loss.
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"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always..."
These words ring in our ears as we have likely heard them many times before. Robert Munsch's book has made its way into our hearts and minds. Many of us heard the book as children and now read the book to our children. Some people love, some people are bothered by persistence of what we might see as an overbearing mother.
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A miscarriage is a significant physical and emotional event for a woman and her family. Often under prepared and under informed women experience miscarriages without the right supplies or information.
EPLA is committed to distributing our miscarriage care kits at no cost to families or providers. We seek to help bear the burden of grief for women and families suffering early pregnancy loss, and bearing the f...
This week we sit down with Jamilah Robinson, the co-founder and Executive Director of Missing Pieces Support Group in Houston, Texas.
EPLA is excited to highlight this organization as our missions are quite alike! It is the mission of Missing Pieces to bring awareness to pregnancy loss by providing community support, resources, and care packages; forming a mindful community that bridges the gap for similar s...
In this episode we briefly summarize what's in both sizes of our Miscarriage Care Kits (small for after a loss is completed or post-D&C or large for an expectant or at-home miscarriage). If you or someone you know would like a kit, please visit https://www.miscarriagecare.com/care-kit-request.html
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Early Pregnancy Loss Association's treasurer, Abby Strehle, tells the story of her miscarriage, which was also her first pregnancy, and how she was an EPLA "success story," as she was connected to our organization and provided with a Miscarriage Care Kit soon after her loss.
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Only a few weeks into her first pregnancy, Haley Naida was surprised to discover she was experiencing a Missed Miscarriage. The following days, weeks, months, and years brought grief and confusion as she and her husband muddled through the spiritual, emotional, and physical suffering. But they also experienced great hope and healing through the gift of friendship. Haley's wisdom and grace shines through as she ca...
As we approach Mother's Day many mothers are left grieving the children they never knew. Miscarriage not only robs us of our child's life, but sometimes it feels like it can rob us of our motherhood.
You are a mother. Your motherhood began at conception. If you are suffering this time of year know that both Bereaved Mother's Day and Mother's Day are for you.
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Ten years ago our co-host, Emily, discovered that her first child, affectionately known as Baby, no longer had a heartbeat. It was the end of April and she and her husband were looking forward to a new house, new job, and new baby, only to be told Baby had died.
While Emily has told her story before this episode specifically remembers that first miscarriage and her short time with Baby. After 10 years her gr...
Emily and Steph talk about a world where no one suffers miscarriage alone. What does that look like? How do we help women and families? What can we do to make this world a reality?
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After suffering and recovering from miscarriage many women and families experience an urge to help others. In this episode Emily and Steph talk about ways to help your community, ways to help EPLA, and ways to meet the needs of other women and families suffering miscarriage around you.
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Grieving is hard and when our friends are grieving we often want to fix it. But does that really work?
So if we can't fix grief, how do we help women as they walk through miscarriage?
We personally loved this little video about grief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE
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The holiday season is over and 2024 is now on a roll. Christmas trees have been cleaned up and the family rooms reset to their "normal" arrangement. But what if life doesn't feel normal yet? What if you aren't ready for it to feel normal.
While we often look to a new year with hope and anticipation, this can be particularly difficult for women and families who suffered miscarriage in 2023...
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