Hope Blooms: Surviving Miscarriage Together

Dec 18 2024 62 ep. 26 mins 1
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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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Miscarriage Resources: Processing Our Grief in Community

Dec 18 2024 37 mins  
Send us a textOften 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 p

Miscarriage Perspectives: The Burial Problem

Dec 11 2024 22 mins  
Send us a textIn 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. Support the showFind us any time: Hope Blooms Blog FacebookInstagram: @earlypregnancy

Miscarriage Resources: Haven Miscarriage Clinic

Nov 21 2024 31 mins  
Send us a textMaria 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.havenmiscar

From the Archives: Handling Death: A Brief History of Grieving Rituals and Human Mourning.

Oct 29 2024 32 mins  
Send us a textWomen 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 e

Miscarriage Myth Busting

Oct 17 2024 27 mins  
Send us a textMiscarriage 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

Infant Death in Puritan New England, The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet - From the Archives

Oct 03 2024 26 mins  
Send us a textAnne 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 losin

What is a Miscarriage Anyway?

Sep 24 2024 30 mins  
Send us a textWhile 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 experi

Book Review: I'll Love You Forever

Sep 09 2024 24 mins  
Send us a text"I'll love you foreverI'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 mot

Miscarriage Care Kits: The Cost of Services

Aug 20 2024 8 mins  
Send us a textA 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 sufferin

Resource Spotlight: Missing Pieces Support Group

Aug 13 2024 25 mins  
Send us a textThis 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 com