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Our All-Present God

God has invited us to be captivated by the greatness of His character and what we believe about God has the greatest potential to shape our suffering. Although we will never be able to thoroughly grasp the fullness of His glory on this side of eternity, He has given us glimpses of His glory in the revelation of His Word. In this series, we will dive into ten attributes of God and discover what hope they offer us in our sorrow and how knowing and believing these truths about who God is can provide great comfort in the midst of grief. In 2015, just five months after getting married, I went on an overseas medical mission as part of my service ...

Hope Groups: Seeking the Lord Together in a Community That Understands Loss

Hope Groups are a made up of a group of women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss (up to two years of age) at any point in their life. It’s a collection of women who meet and share their stories with one another, pray together, ask questions, share hurts, share happinesses, and cling to His Word to find that there is still hope after the death of their precious sons and daughters.If you are looking for a way to connect with other Hope Moms and be strengthened together through God's Word as you walk through your sorrow side by side, you can register HERE to join a Hope Group today. To learn more about our Spring Hope Group ...

Gift of Hope

Today we are launching a new area of ministry at Hope Mommies: Gift of Hope. Medical bills for a baby you did not bring home, or who came home and did not stay, can be a shockingly unexpected reminder of what should have been. While we can’t change the painful reality of your circumstances, we hope to come alongside you and help ease this financial burden as you begin to face life without your dearly loved baby. Through the Gift of Hope we are offering financial assistance to help cover medical bills of babies who have died. Read the story behind Gift of Hope: Andy and I were surprised to find I was pregnant shortly after our sixth ...

Ask the Blog Team: For those who had an early loss, do you ever struggle with feeling like your grief is “less valid” than others’?

Welcome to our Q+A series, Ask the Blog Team. In this series, the Hope Mommies blog team joins together to answer questions that are commonly asked in grief. If there is a question or topic that you have wrestled with in your grief that you would like the opportunity to see how other Hope Moms have processed or answered, we would love to hear from you. You can submit your questions here. Anna was born prematurely at 17 weeks due to my cervix failing, so my situation was unique; she did not die in utero. We delivered in the hospital and were able to hold her and take pictures, so I feel as though I relate more to women who have experienced loss ...

Ask the Blog Team: How Do You Respond When Someone Asks How Many Children You Have?

Welcome to our Q+A series, Ask the Blog Team. In this series, the Hope Mommies blog team joins together to answer questions that are commonly asked in grief. If there is a question or topic that you have wrestled with in your grief that you would like the opportunity to see how other Hope Moms have processed or answered, we would love to hear from you. You can submit your questions here. It depends. Sometimes I refer to being pregnant in the past or having a daughter when I know I won't have to give many details. Other times, I say “none” and others I am open and share that we have one in heaven. It depends on how much info I feel like ...

Laurice’s Story

“Let’s move to a second ultrasound room.” With those words, my entire world changed. As I moved to the second room to confirm what my husband and I already knew, the tears began to stream down my face. The doctor confirmed that my first daughter, Addison Lowry, died at 39 weeks, 5 days, just two days before we were set to induce.  My response seemed to shock everyone. “I prayed that God’s will be done in my baby’s life, and this is His story for our life,” I said. It’s been half a year since I lost my daughter. Half a year since I come home to a completed nursery within no one in it. Half a year that the deafening quiet house ...

Leah’s Story

We were in shock, elated shock, to find out that I was pregnant in 2018. We had struggled to conceive both of our boys for over a year each with a miscarriage in between them. As much as our hearts wanted to keep growing our family, I just couldn’t handle the ongoing heartache of trying. So, we didn’t try, didn’t really prevent, and sort of assumed that pregnancy was off the table. Our reactions to the positive pregnancy test confirmed just how much we really did hope for another baby. Even though I was 38, my doctors were fairly relaxed about additional testing. I was healthy with two healthy kids, so there was no pressure to be extra ...

Purposed: Hope Remains

Five years ago, I didn’t know about women like us. I didn’t know that miscarriage happens to 1 in 4 women; that stillbirth is 1 in 160, and that 6 out of every 1,000 infants in the US don’t live to see their first birthday. I was totally oblivious, until October 18, 2010. My Gwendolyn fit into the last category. After a perfect first pregnancy and 24 hours of labor in a birthing center, we lost her heartbeat. I was put on oxygen. I heard the terror in my midwives voices. I was rushed to the ER for an Emergency Cesarean. And when I woke, my husband told me that our little girl was in the NICU with heart and liver damage. And I still thought, ...

Guilt + Grief: Should I Always Share About My Hope Baby When Talking to Others About My Family?

The weight of grief that comes from the loss of a child is a tremendously heavy burden to carry. For many Hope Moms, that weight is compounded by the additional burden of guilt. In this series, we seek to gently guide the grieving mother to the foot of the cross to exchange this burden of guilt for the peace, assurance, and forgiveness that is found in Christ. After we lost our daughter, Ginny, at just under 35 weeks, I dreaded being asked the question, “Do you have kids?” I knew that question would come eventually, and I had no idea how to answer it. I knew I had a daughter in heaven and in my heart. I knew I was a mother, but I had ...

Krista’s Story

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” -2 Corinthians 4:16-18 I have repeated these verses many times. Most of the time, when I am trying to fall asleep and sleep won’t find me—when my mind is wondering and remembering. I have fallen asleep repeating these verses, ...