03/19/2025
✨ Holding Space for Grief: Infant & Child Loss with Hailey L. Verrett, MSW, LCSW ✨
Today's episode of the Birth Acadiana Podcast is a deeply heartfelt conversation with Hailey L. Verrett, MSW, LCSW, a clinical social worker at Bloom Mental Wellness, who provides mental health support for women in the perinatal space—including those navigating the profound grief of infant and child loss.
We discuss Hailey’s journey into this work, the importance of holding space for women in their grief, and how to honor and support those walking this path.
To every woman who has experienced loss, your grief is valid, your love is endless, and you are not alone. We see you. We honor you. 💛
🎧 Listen to “Holding Space for Grief: Infant & Child Loss with Hailey L. Verrett, MSW, LCSW” now on the Birth Acadiana Podcast—available wherever you get your podcasts.
💛 If you or someone you love is grieving, here are some wonderful resources for support in Louisiana:
✨ Maddie’s Footprints – Provides financial assistance, as well as social and emotional support to families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss in the Acadiana and Greater Baton Rouge areas. Virtual support groups are available for anyone residing in Louisiana.
🔗 www.maddiesfootprints.org
✨ Aylee’s Angels – Provides bereavement outfits, curated bereavement boxes/keepsakes, as well as social and emotional support to families experiencing a pregnancy, infant, or pediatric loss across the state. Support groups are held locally in Lafayette, LA.
🔗 www.ayleesangels.org
✨ Rain-Bowie Foundation – Provides financial assistance to families experiencing fertility struggles and strives to donate Cuddle Cots to every hospital in the state to give grieving families the gift of time with their babies.
🔗 www.rainbowiefoundation.org
✨ Holden’s Hope – Supports families of infants who have experienced long hospital stays across the state and those experiencing perinatal loss in Southwest Louisiana.
🔗 www.holdenshopeforever.org
✨ Savannah Smiles – Helps parents who have experienced the death of their baby or child. Offers financial assistance for funeral/burial expenses and emotional support/resources along the grief journey. Serving Southeast Louisiana first, with expansion as funding allows.
🔗 www.savannah-smiles.org
✨ Angel Gowns by Diane – Makes and donates burial gowns and wraps for babies gone too soon by using donated wedding and formal dresses. Based in Texas, serving Louisiana hospitals.
🔗 www.facebook.com/angelgownsbydiane
✨ Red Bird Ministries – A pro-life, pro-family Catholic organization that systematically guides individuals and couples through the complexity and trauma of child loss from pregnancy through adulthood.
🔗 www.redbird.love
✨ Heart Strings & Angel Wings – Provides clothing and other handmade items for babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, as well as bereavement gowns/outfits made from donated wedding dresses.
🔗 www.heartstringsandangelwings.org
