Overview

• Matthew Okula posted nursery camera footage on Aug. 27 showing him rocking infant son Crew and wiping away tears, set to John Mayer’s “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.”
• He wrote that he promised to be transparent and to share the good and the bad, noting nights spent crying and wishing Hailey could see the life she worked so hard for.
• Hailey Okula, 33, died on March 29 shortly after a C-section when she went into cardiac arrest following a rare amniotic fluid embolism, according to the family and prior reporting.
• Known online as “Nurse Hailey,” she was an ER nurse who launched the RN New Grads program in 2019 and openly documented infertility and IVF before her pregnancy.
• Matthew, a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter, has continued using the RN New Grads account to update followers on Crew and to raise awareness of amniotic fluid embolism.