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Hope Blooms Podcast Re-Launch

6/23/2022

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​New from EPLA: the Hope Blooms podcast! By Maria Servold
The Early Pregnancy Loss Association blog editors have been pleased to publish information, stories, and advice on our blog for the last handful of years. This month, we are excited to expand our outreach efforts by launching Hope Blooms, the podcast. 

Available on all major podcast platforms, the Hope Blooms podcast will bring you stories from moms who have suffered miscarriage, as well as conversations with medical and other professionals. 

The first two episodes are now live on your favorite podcast app, and they feature conversations between our founder and current executive director, Emily Carrington, and nurse and therapist Nancy Kingma, conducted in 2019. More of their conversation will be posted over the next month.
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We hope you enjoy the episodes. In the future, we’d like to feature conversations with loss moms, health care professionals, and anyone else seeking to support women and families after early pregnancy loss. Let us know what you’d like to hear, or if you’d like to share your story with us.
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EPLA Podcast #7 Nancy Kingma

4/12/2019

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This week we welcome back Nancy Kingma to address the grief of grandparents and siblings following early pregnancy loss. 
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Over the last four weeks we have featured discussions between Nancy and Emily about grief following loss. Whether you or a loved one have suffered loss, Nancy offers great insights to what each person of the family might be experiencing. 

You can catch previous episodes here: 
An Introduction to Miscarriage
A Mother's Grief
A Father's Grief

About Nancy:
Nancy Kingma has been supporting women, children, and families for more than forty years.  She is licensed as both a nurse and a therapist. She is also a National Certified Counselor and has a certification in Holistic Health. In combining these two professions, Nancy motivates and encourages individuals and families to move toward wholeness, health and their ultimate purpose in life.


​Nancy's obstetrical background gives her a unique perspective in caring for mothers and families dealing with postpartum depression. Additionally, her 15 years as Bereavement Coordinator at Spectrum Health and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital have established Nancy as a leading expert in grief and loss, particularly with families having experienced the death of an infant of any gestation or a child. 

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EPLA Podcast #6 Nancy Kingma

4/4/2019

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In part three of our series discussing miscarriage with Nancy Kingma, Emily and Nancy explore what a father feels during and after a miscarriage and how they may grieve differently than mothers. 

If you missed part one or two of the series, we invite you to listen to them to learn about Nancy's work and more about grieving during miscarriage.
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"How can we best support each other through this"
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EPLA Podcast #4: Nancy Kingma

3/21/2019

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Nancy Kingma has been supporting women, children, and families for more than forty years.  She is licensed as both a nurse and a therapist. She is also a National Certified Counselor and has a certification in Holistic Health. In combining these two professions, Nancy motivates and encourages individuals and families to move toward wholeness, health and their ultimate purpose in life.

​Nancy's obstetrical background gives her a unique perspective in caring for mothers and families dealing with postpartum depression. Additionally, her 15 years as Bereavement Coordinator at Spectrum Health and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital have established Nancy as a leading expert in grief and loss, particularly with families having experienced the death of an infant of any gestation or a child. 

On this podcast, Emily asks about Nancy about her background, what she's learned over her career about miscarriage, grief, and healing, and culture trends surrounding miscarriage.
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Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support

1/31/2019

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In this edition of the Hope Blooms podcast, Emily is joined by Patti Budnick of Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support to discuss their wonderful organization. Emily and Ms. Budnick talk about the needs of families after child loss and how Share seeks to address those needs. 
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Miscarriage: The Basics and More

11/29/2018

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In this edition of the Hope Blooms podcast, Emily talks with Dr. Marguerite Duane. Dr. Duane is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS. A Board-certified family physician, she serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she directs an introductory course on natural or fertility awareness based methods (NFP/FABMs) of family planning.

​She is also a physician with Modern Mobile Medicine, a direct primary care (DPC) house calls-based practice serving patients of all ages in the D.C. metropolitan area. She has served on the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC).

In this episode, Dr. Duane explains various terms associated with pregnancy loss and common treatments following an early pregnancy loss. She also discusses popular questions from women and families following a miscarriage.

*All information in this podcast is intended for educational purposes only. Information is not intended to diagnose, prescribe, mitigate, or cure any symptoms or disease. Please consult your doctor with any questions concerning your health.*
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EPLA Podcast #1

11/1/2018

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The EPLA podcast will feature medical professionals, EPLA representatives, and people from like-minded organizations discussing the following topics:
  • Medical care during and after a miscarriage
  • Ways to encourage families after a loss
  • What various organizations are doing to address the needs of loss families.
And many more issues.

In the inaugural EPLA podcast, Emily Carrington, Founder of the EPLA, discusses why she started the organization, what the EPLA has accomplished to this point, and what we hope to do in the future. 
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