Hope Blooms: Surviving Miscarriage Together

Jan 19 2025 63 ep. 26 mins 2
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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: Lunch and Learn

Jan 19 2025 28 mins  
Send us a textEPLA 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. Support the showFind us any time: Hope Blooms Blog FacebookInstagram: @earlypregnancylossassociationTwitter: @miscarri

Miscarriage Resources: Processing Our Grief in Community

Dec 18 2024 37 mins  
Send us a text 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

Miscarriage Perspectives: The Burial Problem

Dec 11 2024 22 mins  
Send us a text 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. Support the show Find us any time: Hope Blooms Blog Facebook Instagram: @earlypregna

Miscarriage Resources: Haven Miscarriage Clinic

Nov 21 2024 31 mins  
Send us a text 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.havenmisca

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

Oct 29 2024 32 mins  
Send us a text 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

Miscarriage Myth Busting

Oct 17 2024 27 mins  
Send us a text 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

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

Oct 03 2024 26 mins  
Send us a text 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 losi

What is a Miscarriage Anyway?

Sep 24 2024 30 mins  
Send us a text 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 expe

Book Review: I'll Love You Forever

Sep 09 2024 24 mins  
Send us a text "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 m

Miscarriage Care Kits: The Cost of Services

Aug 20 2024 8 mins  
Send us a text 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 sufferi