02/12/2026
Our own Taylor M. Smith, PA-C, ATC, is the newest member of the board of directors for Heaven's Cradle. We're very proud. Heโs a valued member of our provider team, and we know he will make such a positive impact. Congratulations!
Please help us to welcome our newest addition to Heavenโs Cradles Board of Directors. Welcome Taylor Smith!
My name is Taylor Smith. I am a Physician Assistant at Jackson Urological Associates, a Christian, and I serve as a deacon at Englewood Baptist Church, where I am also actively involved in worship ministry.
My wife, Kyndall, and I are the parents of two incredible children, Hadley, who is eight, and Hudson, who is three. We have also experienced loss, loss that reshaped our family, our faith, and our understanding of grief in ways we never anticipated. We have had four pregnancies in total. Hadley was born without complication, full of joy and promise. After her birth, we experienced a miscarriage that required a dilation and curettage. Our next pregnancy was ectopic and required emergency surgery, complicated by severe bleeding so significant that my wife almost lost the fallopian tube completely. After these losses, we were later blessed with the birth of our son, Hudson.
While the medical procedures were difficult, the most painful moments of our journey did not happen in a hospital or operating room. They happened at home, sitting on the floor of our daughterโs bedroom. The hardest thing I have ever done was explain to a three-year-old, and then again to a four-year-old, that the baby sibling we had promised her would not be coming home, but was now in heaven with Jesus. The second time, we sat together and sobbed for what felt like hours. I was supposed to be the parent providing comfort, but instead it was my childโs grief, raw and innocent, that completely broke me. That moment will stay with me forever.
Grief looks different for everyone. For our family, it was quiet and private. Even today, many of our friends do not know our story. We carried the weight silently, the emotional pain, the physical toll of surgeries and repeated pregnancies, the hormonal changes, and the sudden shift in the future we had envisioned. Perinatal loss is far more common than most people realize, yet it is rarely talked about. The isolation can be overwhelming.
Over time, healing allowed us to begin sharing our story openly. Not because the pain disappeared, but because we came to understand that God was present even in our suffering. Scripture tells us, โThe Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spiritโ (Psalm 34:18). We experienced that truth firsthand. Our faith in Jesus carried us when we had no strength of our own and reminded us that even in loss, there is hope, purpose, and eternal promise.
I share our story because I know how alone families can feel in moments of loss. I know how deeply families need compassion, understanding, and tangible reminders that their baby matters and their grief matters. Organizations like Heavenโs Cradle step into sacred, painful moments with dignity, love, and intentional care. It would be an honor to support that mission and to help ensure that families are met with comfort and remembrance during the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
If our story can help even one family feel seen, understood, or less alone, then sharing it is worth it.
