Our story
Unspoken Motherhood began with Rachel Most’s own experience of feeling alone and forgotten after three miscarriages and the stillbirth of two sons.
Rachel’s first pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Because the pregnancy was early and few people knew about it, much of her grief was private. After the birth of a healthy baby, she hoped that chapter was over. It was not. A second miscarriage was followed by undiagnosed postpartum depression and the painful sense that the people around her—including her healthcare provider—did not know how to support her.
Rachel later experienced a third miscarriage. She was given medication to induce labor at home, but there was no follow-up call or appointment to confirm that the medication had worked or ask how she was doing. In later pregnancies, Rachel and her husband, Paul, would also say goodbye to two sons, Promise and Emmanuel, who were born still.
During each stillbirth, Rachel briefly met a nurse who shared that she had also lost a baby. Neither nurse was able to stay throughout the delivery, but simply knowing someone in the hospital understood the loss changed the way Rachel remembered those days. The families received strong physical care, yet still lacked emotional support, guidance about burial and remembrance options, and connections to resources for what came next.
As Rachel became connected with other loss moms, she saw a way to bring together her nursing experience, master’s training in biblical counseling, and personal story. Doctors, midwives, labor-and-delivery leaders, and nurses affirmed that this kind of support was needed. With Paul and a growing community behind her, Rachel founded Unspoken Motherhood Inc in 2022.
Rachel wants mothers to know what options and resources are available when they first learn their baby no longer has a heartbeat. She wants someone familiar with both the hospital setting and pregnancy loss to be able to stay, listen, speak the baby’s name, and help a family find a little beauty amid the trauma—because even the littlest ones belong.
“Knowing there was someone in that big hospital who knew my pain made a difference. I want to be able to be a nurse who can stay with moms in the same dreadful circumstances.”— Rachel, mom to Promise and Emmanuel
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The board brings together lived experience, nursing, finance, and ministry in service of Unspoken Mothers and their medical providers.