Hope Blooms: Surviving Miscarriage Together

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Emily and Maria talk abou how Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness (PAIL) Month has grown over the years. They also offer ways to remember our children and care for our hearts and bodies during this time.

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Emily miscarried 9 years ago. Her mother, Linda, thought her daughter's experience and care might be different than her own loss nearly 30 years earlier. 

But it wasn't. Emily was stuck with the same hushed culture and confusion surrounding miscarriage. There was a lack of educational resources and limited community support not much different than her own loss decades before. 

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Working through the trauma of miscarriage can take its toll on a relationship. Each person might experience grief differently, have different needs, or even different expectations. Emily and Maria talk about some of these challenges and look for ways to love, care, and support each other following early pregnancy loss. 

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The frontlines of miscarriage care are diverse. While medical professionals are an integral part of this, they are not the only ones faced with serving women and families after loss. Due to the nature of miscarriage and prenatal care, some women aren't even in the care of a doctor yet at the time of their loss. This leaves other caregivers with the challenge of providing emotional, physical, and spiritual support. 

Some women turn to their church community, but are these churches ready to help? 

Pastor Everett Henes joins Emily and Maria to talk about some ways the he and the Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church has responded to needs in his congregation. 

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The U.K. Government recently reviewed an independent report concerning was to improve care following early pregnancy loss. As a couple of Americans looking on, Emily and Maria take this episode to respond to the recommendations. Maybe there really is a better way?

So many of our stories talk about painful interactions with medical professionals, being under prepared to manage the physical experience, and difficultly processing the emotional and physical toll. These recommendations tackle these problems head on dignifying the woman, the fetus, and the whole family. 

Everyone would do well to take the advice laid out in this review: 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-independent-pregnancy-loss-review/government-response-to-the-independent-pregnancy-loss-review-care-and-support-when-baby-loss-occurs-before-24-weeks-gestation

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Early pregnancy loss brings grief to the whole family. Often parents, in the midst of their own grief, are also left to guide their living children through the loss of a sibling.  Later on families might face the difficulty of sharing their previous losses with children born after their miscarriage. Either way, talking about life and death with children might feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be.

In this episode Maria and Emily share resources that helped them navigate these conversations with their own children.

For more information visit:
After Miscarriage: How to Talk to Your Children About Pregnancy Loss
Talking to Children About Baby Loss

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Starting with one bereavement basket in 2007 Forget-Me-Not Baskets has served Northeast Ohio and beyond for over 15 years. Since then they have given away thousands of baskets to families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss. 

Emily and Maria are joined by Sara Ringle to talk about the changing culture of pregnancy loss, moms serving moms, and ways we can reach people better. 

Learn more about Forget-Me-Not Baskets: https://forgetmenotbaskets.com/

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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 calls for doctors, women, the church, and our whole community, to step up and take care of those experiencing this loss.

Learn more about missed miscarriage and other types of pregnancy loss: EPLA Resources


 

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This is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE  and we want to honor this achievement with you. Be sure to listen for opportunities to give us your feedback and receive some special EPLA swag!

On June 7, 2022 we launched Hope Blooms: Surviving Miscarriage Together with our first episode: The Changing Culture of Pregnancy Loss: An Interview with Nancy Kingma, Part 1. 

Over the last year we have kept the conversation going by featuring parents, nurses, doctors, and other professionals who are dedicated to caring for families who have experienced miscarriage. It has been a privilege and an honor to share this space with our guests and listeners. 

As we look toward the next year we want to hear from you and we want to share with you. This episode is full of prompts to enter special giveaways. 

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P.O. Box 179 Hillsdale, MI 49242

To request a miscarriage care kit please email [email protected] with your information. Care kits are distributed at no cost throughout the United States.

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Kathy Petersen joins Maria and Emily to talk about her prespective as a Labor and Delivery Nurse and a loss mom herself. 

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P.O. Box 179 Hillsdale, MI 49242

To request a miscarriage care kit please email [email protected] with your information. Care kits are distributed at no cost throughout the United States.