Episode 25: Celebrating 2022

Sit with the ladies of MOHA network discussing the exciting progress and accomplishments of the last six months. This heartwarming episode highlights the amazing work of MOHA's volunteers and the beauty that has come from sharing the education of a "standard of care" for families of baby loss. Stay tuned for our next season filled with experts and more conversations from moms of loss.

Sit with MOHA as they have a roundtable chat about the anxieties and joys of pregnancy after loss. This episode is filled with real life experiences and raw input about what it is like to be pregnant again after the unimaginable pain of baby loss.

Meet Steph Wild! Steph was our keynote speaker for our 2023 GALA and longtime advocate for families of loss. She is currently leading the way in educating hospitals and healthcare professionals about the importance of time with a 'Cuddle Cot'. Tune in to hear her personal experience losing her daughter Bea and how her experience helped further her mission in bereavement care.

MOHA sits down with Debbie Ross at J. Earthman's Funeral Home to discuss the unique and compassionate care they provide families of baby loss. Debbie describes how she empowers families to create memories before laying their baby to rest and how important those moments are to the healing process. Tune in for incredible wisdom of the funeral planning process for infant death.

MOHA sits down with Jessica Taylor from "Heaven Instead" and shares her story on how her ministry began. Jessica's non-profit helps families with the cost of funeral arrangements all around the Houston area. She works compassionately with families in and outside of the hospital. Tune in to hear how you can help a family financially with their costs of laying their baby to rest.

The founders of MOHA chat about their first year together. The hardships and the celebrations all came together to create an extremely successful year fulfilling their mission to raise the standard of care for bereaved families in the hospital and beyond. Tune in to hear their take on the "ins and outs" of the first year and what all their donors/sponsors have contributed to in making it so successful.

“It takes a special person to be able to sit with someone while they are grieving” - Marian from Bo’s Place shares an amazing Houston Area resource, “Bo’s Place”. A local grief and counseling center that offers support for children and families grieving a loved one. Join MOHA as we discuss with Marian the importance of knowing you are not alone in grief and the benefit of their unique style of support groups.

"There is nothing normal about losing your baby, but we can normalize talking about it" M.O.H.A welcomes special guest speaker Taryn Schuelke. Taryn is a grief and bereavement specialist in palliative care at Texas Children's Hospital and an author of "A kids book about death" Tune in as Taryn shares ways to normalize sharing your grief with your living children.

Back to School Blues… the feeling of missing out on back to school no matter where you are in your grief journey. Tune in for conversation on coping with all the back to school festivities. We have healing conversation on how to feel happy AND sad for our living children to go to school but always holding our missing child in our hearts.

The Fathers of Held Angels, or as we like to say- FOHA, come together to get candid about their experience with stillbirth and neonatal death. The dad's have an incredibly honest conversation about their views of marriage life after and how best to support their families. Tune in for the insight of a father before, during and after the loss of their baby.