""We're coming up on 5 months without Hailey," the caption for the post reads. "I promised I'd be transparent and share the good and the bad, so here it is. Some nights I'm crying in the dark, wishing she could be here to hold him, to see him, to live the life she worked so hard for. It's all so bittersweet. We miss and love you, Hailey.""
""In a new post he shared on his late wife's Instagram on Aug. 27, the widower shared black-and-white footage from a nursery camera caring for their son and a caption that revealed the depth of his grief. The footage shows Matthew Okula rocking Crew in a nursery chair. At one point, the new father wipes his eyes as he holds their son.""
Hailey Okula, an ER nurse known on Instagram as Nurse Hailey, died from cardiac arrest caused by an amniotic fluid embolism shortly after giving birth to her son, Crew. Her husband, Los Angeles Fire Department engineer Matthew Okula, has used her Instagram account to share black-and-white nursery camera footage and candid captions about parenting alone and grieving. He admitted to crying at night and longing for Hailey to hold and see their son, while promising transparency about the good and the bad. The posts have prompted supportive responses from followers who have tracked the couple's fertility and pregnancy journey.
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