Created From Lived Experience
After our first baby, we had a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and then a high risk pregnancy. At our 20-week anatomy scan, we learned I had cervical insufficiency and underwent an emergency rescue cerclage. Just days later, my water broke, and what we thought would be a short hospital stay became 87 days of antepartum bedrest, followed by 46 days in the NICU after our daughter, Lorelai, was born at 31 weeks and 6 days. During those months, we celebrated my son's fourth birthday and my baby shower at the hospital, grieved the loss of normal life, and experienced the fear, isolation, and loss of control that so many high-risk pregnancy and NICU families know all too well. Before we even knew she was a girl, God placed the name Lorelai Hope on my heart—a name that became my daily reminder to keep holding onto Him through the hardest season of our lives.
Today, I get to hold my Hope in my arms, and Holding Hope was born from that journey. Through the faithfulness of God, the incredible care of our medical team, and the prayers of so many, our family experienced hope in the darkest of places. Now our mission is to share that hope with other families walking through high-risk pregnancies, NICU stays, pregnancy loss, and long hospital journeys by providing practical support, encouragement, and reminders that they are never alone. We pray every act of kindness points people to the One who carried us through it all.
🕊️ Hope in Action: How We Plan To Serve Families
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Care Cart for Long Term Antepartum Patients at St. Thomas Rutherford
Practical essentials, journals, kids activities, crafts, and little reminders of hope for the long, lonely hospital days.
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Care Cart for NICU Parents at St. Thomas Rutherford
Practical essentials, self-care items, board books to read their babies, and little reminders of hope for parents spending long days beside their baby's NICU bed.
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Crafts & Kids Activities for the Antepartum Unit at St. Thomas Midtown
Helping siblings create joyful memories through crafts, books, and board games while Mom is staying in the hospital longterm. Supplies for group craft activities for the moms to do together.
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Children's Books (PHASE 2)
We're dreaming of 2 children's books to help siblings understand hospital stays, the NICU, and finding hope in hard seasons.
Book 1: Ryman's Hospital Adventure
Book 2: Holding Hope
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Prayer Journal + Devotional (PHASE 2)
A devotional and guided prayer journal created to encourage moms walking through high-risk pregnancies and NICU journeys with the hope of Christ.
🏥 Currently Serving Families at St. Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro, TN & St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville, TN
🫶 Ways You Can Support Holding Hope
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Shop our Amazon Wishlist
Amazon WishlistWe've created an Amazon Wishlist of items needed to stock the care carts and respite room! Click the link below to purchase items that will ship directly to us to help stock and replenish items needed!
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Purchase a Wave of Light Candle
Purchase a Wave of Light Candle HERE$10 from every Wave of Light custom candle will go directly into The Holding Hope fund to purchase items off our wishlist! Click the link below to order one!
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Donate
Click HERE to make a DonationWant to give directly to The Holding Hope Project? Click the link below to make a donation. Please know, we are not a 5013c organization at this time and donations are not tax deductible.
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Pray + Share
Pray for our mission, the families in our community facing the uncertainty of a long term hospitalization or NICU stay - that they would not lose hope! Please SHARE our social media posts, Wave of Light candles, and Amazon Wishlist to help us raise as much support as possible for these families.
