Matthew Okula
Wife Nurse Hailey Was Going to Have Girl Next …
Before Tragic Death in Childbirth
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Matthew Okula says he and his wife Hailey were so excited to be parents that they’d already planned on going through another round of IVF and picked a name for their second kid before the influencer’s tragic death.
We spoke with Okula — a Los Angeles Firefighter — in an interview Friday about his wife, known by many online as Nurse Hailey … and, he says the couple had been blessed with another successful embryo, this one a girl, to implant at a future date.
He says he and Hailey were choosing which to have first — a boy or a girl — and ultimately settled on the boy because they wanted their little girl to have a protector.
The little girl’s name was going to be Oaklie Anne Okula … seemingly a reference to Wild West legend Annie Oakley.
Matthew says Hailey really wanted to be a mom … so much so, he actually turned down the chance to hold Crew at first because he wanted the whole family to be together before anyone picked him up.
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Of course, Hailey never really got the chance to meet their child … because she died after suffering an amniotic embolism — a medical complication during childbirth where the fluid surrounding the baby in the womb enters the carrier’s bloodstream, causing damage to multiple organs.
Matthew says he spent a long time holding and talking to Hailey in the hospital … willing her to come back to him so they could “have this life that we talked about so much.”
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While Hailey didn’t make it, Crew survived … and, Matthew’s even holding him during our chat — letting the little guy rest while he speaks emotionally about his late wife.
Okula’s friends have started a GoFundMe to help support both Matthew and baby Crew in the wake of their loss … and, Matthew says he plans to use this opportunity to bring awareness to amniotic embolisms — watch the clip all the way through to hear about it.